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Re: i/o error ($27)

doug holverson writes ...
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> Would an old Mac Plus be such a machine?
>

     Not very likely (unless there is a defect in the Mac's drives).  The disks
I've come across which had 'over magnetized' media came from a PC user. 

 
> And what's the preferred way to clean disk drives?
> 

     As William says, you use a head cleaner disk. For more on cleaning the R/W
heads, see http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FDRIVE.html#004 .



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