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From: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk safety question
Message-ID: <2877@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 10:56:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2877
Posted: Mon Nov 30 10:56:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 06:59:43 EST
References: <407@ndmath.UUCP>
Reply-To: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <407@ndmath.UUCP> nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo) writes:
>
>If you can't get the grease out of some of the disk jackets, are they still
>safe to use?  Assume that none of the grease got under the little metal
>thing to hit the disk surface.
>
>nj, the man with no coordination.
YUCK !

If you stick the disk in there and everything works ok, then you are ok.
If it buggers the drive then you are in real bad shape. Therefore I
would avoid taking the chance at all costs.

Suggest you format a new disk, remove the metal protection sleeve from
the disk, and see if your drive will read and write it ok. If you find
this does work, then remove the metal sleeves from all affected disks,
and back them up one by one. 

The cost of a few diskettes is small. Drives are expensive in terms of
cash, time and headaches.

Hedley