clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan15.153009.476@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich) writes: |2. I was trying valiantly to start the year off right by cleaning my | floppy drive with a good ol' Radio Shack cleaning diskette. But the | Mac ejects it as an unreadable disk almost immediately, so it doesn't | get the recommended 30 seconds of "play" time that it needs to clean | the drive head. Is there a utility program (or some technique) that | will allow the heads to engage and seek around on a head-cleaning | diskette for a little while? The Verbatim cleaning disk I used a couple years ago mentioned this in the instructions, suggesting that one simply keep re-inserting it repeatedly until it had been spinning for about 30 seconds total. chaz -- Someone please release me from this trance. clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone