Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!tainter
From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Teflon Diskettes
Message-ID: <4659@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 88 15:42:23 GMT
References: <36400002@hcx2>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <36400002@hcx2>, daver@hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
>Having received a  free  Verbatim  DataLifePlus  Teflon-protected
>minidisk in the mail, I have the following concern before feeding
>it into the disk drive:  How permanent  is  the  Teflon  coating?
>The  Teflon  on  my  cooking  skillets  has  come  off  in places
>(probably through  improper  treatment).   Will  the  same  thing
>happen  to  the  diskette and interfere with the operation of the
>read/write head?

>Granted, the head and the disk are never supposed  to  meet.   Is
>data intregrity really higher as the manufacturer claims?

With hard disks the heads never meet the  surface.  With floppies
the  heads  are actually pressed onto the surface.  The medium on
all floppies will slowly come off and accumulate on your head, if
you  start  getting  errors  on  your disks clean your head first
before giving up on the floppy.  Teflon should  be  better  about
this as it should have less friction.

--j.a.tainter