11 Jul
2018
11 Jul
'18
2:52 a.m.
On 11 Jul 2018, at 09:33, Terry Stewart via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Just my experience, I once did a trial where I took two identical 5,25
inch disks of the same batch from the same manufacturer. These were clean
disks which both formatted and verified just fine, but I wanted to see if
IPA did indeed damage the disk.
One I swabbed one with 75% IPA, the other with warm water with a touch of
dishwashing liquid.
On checking the IPA swabbed disk now showed a few damaged sectors. The
water/detergent one did not.
It's not scientific (just one rep) and I was quite aggressive with the
wiping. However, it made me steer away from IPA. Immersing the platters
in warm water with a touch of detergent, and gently wiping (then air
drying) works well for me when cleaning "dirty disks".
Terry (Tez)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Thanks everyone!
I found another box so I?ve got 20 ?new? ones now. I?ll try all of the above methods and
see where it gets me. Pity I don?t have any spare jackets but my plan was to attempt to
get the CPT to boot and since the original boot disk has damaged sectors 0-3 and the
previous owner didn?t make a copy I?m a bit stuck anyway.
It was good to be able to see actual documents on the data disks with ANADISK though,
cheers Chuck :)
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