Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!gargoyle!chinet!magik From: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive Message-ID: <1990Mar7.064111.18272@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 7 Mar 90 06:41:11 GMT References: <1990Mar6.071312.25729@chinet.chi.il.us> <9823@portia.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 25 In article <9823@portia.Stanford.EDU> thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes: >In article <1990Mar6.071312.25729@chinet.chi.il.us> magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman) writes: >>I bought an SE/30 in Jan. of 1989 and started having problems with the FDHD >>and Sony disks. After having 2 HD and 4 DD disks fail, I went out and bought >>a head cleaning disk at my local EggHead computer store. I now clean my >>drive every few months and haven't had a single DD failure since. >>(your milage may vary ;-) > >Hooray, another "first batch" SE/30 user! What does this cleaning disk you >have do? Do you need to use a fluid with it or what? The cleaning kit consists of a floppy shell that can be opened, and several sealed packets, each containing a round piece of absorbent material with a metal diskette hub in the center. The "floppy" is impregnated with some sort of solvent (alcohol?). The instructions say to put it in the drive and let it spin for 10 seconds. - - - -- ------------ ------------ ---------------------- Ben Liberman USENET magik@chinet.chi.il.us GEnie,Delphi MAGIK