28 Jun
2004
28 Jun
'04
12:07 p.m.
On Jun 28, 13:16, Teo Zenios wrote:
How often do you people use a head cleaner to keep
your floppy drives
running
Never. You shouldn't need to clean the heads, in normal use. If you
do, you have a damaged diskette (or possibly a damaged head, which is
scraping oxide off your floppies) which you should track down, cut up,
burn, and discard.
Of course, sometimes oxide from a damaged floppy will stick to the
head, and that will then damage any other disks you put in that drive.
(or what do you use to clean them when they don't read disks
correctly)?
Cotton bud and iso-propyl alcohol. Head-cleaning disks don't do a very
good job, especially if the head is really dirty.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York