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- From: David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Don't clean drives!! (was Re: Problems Detected with System 6)
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:37:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.103751.24591@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1993Jan25.115439.9055@actrix.gen.nz> <1993Jan25.150843.18453@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan25.165942.10473@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.165942.10473@zip.eecs.umich.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan25.150843.18453@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning) writes:
- > >
- > >Since I clean the drives every month I didn't think the disk drives were
- > >dirty but I cleaned them anyway. No visible dirt - maybe microscopic? ;)
- >
- > Ack! Don't "clean" your 3.5" drives. They rarely ever need it, if
- > ever. Even cleaning them once a year is probably too much.
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- Agreed! I've never cleaned mine (since mid '87) and it is still
- working fine.
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- David Empson
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