Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Disk safety question Message-ID: <2909@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 23:47:21 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2909 Posted: Sat Dec 5 23:47:21 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Dec-87 04:44:04 EST References: <407@ndmath.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 28 Keywords: Really In article <407@ndmath.UUCP> nj@ndmath.UUCP (Narciso Jaramillo) writes: > > Suppose, hypothetically, that you were eating a pizza very near your > disk box (Amiga disks here). And suppose, hypothetically, that the pizza > you were eating had just recently been severely rewarmed--i.e. greasy. > > Further suppose that you dropped a slice of this extremely greasy pizza into > the aforementioned disk box, thus causing several disks to get slimed... > grease, pieces of sausage, onions... oops... > The question: > > 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. The answer is no, they aren't safe! Who wants any yicky-poo organic grease or slime inside their disk drive? Howver if you clean them up as much as possible, it probably safe to stick them in the drive and copy the data to a nice squeaky clean disk, with only minimal risk of damage to you or your machine. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)