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Article #109Re: Cleaning disk packs (we do it, do you want to?)
From: Tony Li
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1984 09:22
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1984 09:22
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> I haven't seen any definitive answers on this subject, so I thought I
> would post my views (not that they are definitive). It seems to me the
> original article was about RL02 disk packs, but that's long been
> expired.
>
> - It is not economical to do this with an RL02, as the cost would
> rapidly pay for a new pack. Also, the recording density on an RL02 is
> not great enough that it is likely to make a very big difference.
>
> Erik Lindberg AKA del
> ...!ucbvax!lbl-unix!uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!del
Something that we've been doing that IS very economical and useful is to
clean the diskheads on the drive as part of PM. It's a trivial procedure,
and generally cures and errors that we seem to be getting.
;-)
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Tony Li ;-) Usc Computer Science
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