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From: tli@uscvax.UUCP (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: Cleaning disk packs (we do it, do you want to?)
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 04:22:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 04:22:49 1984
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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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