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In article <110@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:
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>this once for every 10 hours of drive use.  The cleaning floppy is good for
>8-12 uses, and then you should go out and buy another kit.

Ok, so cleaning your drive is a good idea.  However I must point out
that cleaning your drives is a lot like brushing your teeth with
sandpaper.  It really acheives the desired effect, but maybe you
shouldn't do it every day.  The MOST I've ever cleaned the drive heads
on my own Mac is about twice in the last 4 years, and I've *never* had a
problem due to dust and dirt.  The university computer lab I work for
has 18 SEs in a classroom enviroment, and we have had to clean the
drives about 2 times in the last year (average, approximately).  Seems
like over-cleaning would wear down the heads eventually.  Our rule of
thumb is to NOT clean them unless it seems worthwhile.  Again, someone
will probably flame me for this, but it seems that drive-cleaner
manufactures might want people to clean their drives as much as
possible, but this seems like it would eventually be counter-productive.

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>"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" (Just like doing your daily
>hard disk backups!)

Most definitely good advice.  But is ten-ounces of prevention when only
one-ounce was required a really good idea?  Flame away!


Robert Cook.