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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The Care and Feeding of Floppy Drives
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Date: 28 Jul 88 16:00:27 GMT
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Is there something I should be doing in the way of "PM" or some such
for my floppy drives?  I'm pretty much of a novice when it comes to
those things, but last night I had one of those little incidents that
make you think about it:  I tried to boot my Amiga with the same WB
disk it had been using successfully for months, all write protected, of
course, and it complained of a read error.  I retried a couple of time
all to no avail.  So I popped the disk, just blew into the front of the
drive (no "Dust Off" or anything fancy like that...  just a huff and a
puff) and reinserted the disk and it *worked*!

Anyhow, now I'm worried.  Should I be regularly cleaning out the
drives?  I notice that they don't have any little doors or anything on
them, so they should do more than their share of sucking up dust, cat
hair, etc.  Thanks.

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