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HeadClean by Phil Burk of Delta Research
7/14/89
HeadClean is a Shareware program and may be freely redistributed
for non-commercial purposes.
The heads on your floppy disk drives are just like the magnetic
heads on your VCR or audio tape deck. They can accumulate
oxides and grime that interfere with reading and writing disks.
If you are getting unexplainable errors when reading or writing
to floppy disks you may have dirty heads.
Many people clean their heads every month. How often you clean
your heads depends on many things: how often you use your
drives, whether you smoke near your computer, what you smoke,
what kind of disks you use, humidity, etc.
HeadClean V2.0 is designed to work with the fibre cleaning disks
available from Radio Shack and other stores. It "wipes" the
heads of your disk drive on several cylinders of this fibre disk
by attempting to format it. It also keeps track of which
cylinders have been used. Without this program, Amiga DOS will
attempt to read the fibre disk and immediately fail before
giving the heads the good 20 second cleaning which they need.
If you don't have a fibre cleaning disk and just want to see how
this program works, you can substitute an UNformatted disk for
the fibre disk. You will be able to pretend you are cleaning
one drive. It will NOT really clean anything. If you
accidentally put a formatted disk in the drive it will detect
this and not use it. This feature protects you from destroying
data on working disks.
For instructions on how to use HeadClean V2.0, run it. Then
click on the "Help" gadget. It is safe to do this even without
the fibre disk.
I hope you find this program useful. If so, please send a ten
dollar check, payable to Phil Burk to the following address:
Phil Burk
Dept. HC
Box 1051
San Rafael, CA
USA 94915
This program was written using JForth Professional 2.0 available
from Delta Research. You can write to the above address for
more information on JForth.