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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Cleaning my disk drive heads
Summary: Yes, do clean the drive
Message-ID: <3599@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 89 02:31:40 GMT
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Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
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In article <6473@dayton.UUCP> joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:
-
-So the question is: should I bother?  Should I be cleaning my heads?
-How often?  What's going to happen to me if I don't?  (I've gotten
-by over a year now without worrying about it...)

	According to a friend of mine, you should clean the head on a 3.5"
drive more often than a 5.25" drive.  Why you ask?  Well, when you store
the 3.5" disks next to each other, their metallic shutter tend to rub
against each other.  This action creates microscopic metal dusts that could
get onto the surface of the disks.  Now imagine these dust grinding against
the head of the drive and the disks.  8(  This is not entirely conjecture.
He was shown an electronic micrograph of the disks, and got to see these
dust (actually looks more like boulders on the micrograph) for himself.
-- 
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