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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Subject: Re: Camcorder head-cleaning tape ok for Exabyte?
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.203728.6566@ico.isc.com>
Summary: and that ain't the half of it!
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
References: <32147@usc> <1991Apr23.170858.17457@nmt.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 20:37:28 GMT

rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
  ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
> >Exabyte sells this for 30 bux, I think, and Fedco has a Sony
> >camcorder head-cleaning tape for 10 bux.
...
> Yes, you need it, and *NO*, you *CAN'T* use the camcorder cleaning tape on
> your Exabyte drive. It's abrasive, and will void your warranty with Exabyte
> (or whoever else sold you the drive)...
...
> Exabyte tape heads are not the same as the camcorder ones.

Ruth is dead on target, and in fact there's even more to it than that:
	- the camcorder-cleaning tape will not only void the warranty; it
	  WILL ruin the head on the Exabyte drive.
	- the factory can tell, from examining the head, that an abrasive
	  camcorder-cleaning tape was used on it.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
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