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Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive (or ANY floppy drive)

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From: John DeRosa
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 1990 16:08
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jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes:


>I recently bought a floppy drive cleaning kit (by Kodak).  It consists of
>a floppy with a special material where the disk medium would normally be, and
>a small bottle of a special cleaning fluid.  You put a few drops on the

I got a product similar to this called trackmate.  It contained a bottle 
of "stuff" that had a felt tip to spead the liquid with.  It also
came with some software that would analyze the drive and recommend
a cleaning procedure; none, short or long.

The problem is that the "disk" would ALWAYS jam in the drive which
would require disassembly of the Mac to get it out.  Has anyone
also had this problem?  It has happened on several macs.  Would
the 800K init help this problem? 
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!derosa
From: derosa@cell.mot.COM (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Everyone with an FDHD drive (or ANY floppy drive)
Message-ID: <1587@diamond2.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 16:08:55 GMT
References: <HAIRSTON.90Mar6172431@henry.ece.cmu.edu> <4227@hub.UUCP> <110@atux01.UUCP>
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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