On 27 Aug 1999 Modem@sciboard.spd.louisville.edu wrote: > An 8inch disk can be written to when it is NOT notched. Cutting the > notch write-protects the disk. > Two things you could try. First chean the head with an alcohol soaked > rag. Please don't use a rag. Try a cotton swab (available at any drugstore). Don't get them at a computer store. They are tremendously overpriced there. Isopropyl alcohol is preferred. Get it at the drugstore also. The kind you get at a hardware store is not clean enough. The head cleaner you get at a computer store is nothing but 70% isopropyl alcohol. Somebody is making a lot of money repackaging ordinary drug store supplies and selling them for a 100 times what they are worth at a computer store. - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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