Re: The Official CSA2 FAQs available now in html format pages

[Ronny Svedman <rosv4119@student.uu.se>]

Cturley2 wrote:
> 
> Realizing the need of the new Official CSA2 FAQs to be made available in
> html document format, I've converted the standard DEC.98 CSA2 FAQs text
> files to html format document pages.  They are also available in total as a
> ShrinkIt archive for your download needs.


May I suggest a minor change in the "Disks" section ?


-snippety-


004- Recently I found that some of my old 5.25" disks would
not boot. A check showed splotches etched on the surface
of the media. What's going on?

As you may recall, a number of the classier 5.25" diskette brands
employed (still employ?) a lubricant on their jacket liners. While the
lube worked to reduce drag and noise, it also, evidently, served as a
growth medium for a particularly nasty plastic and/or oxide-eating
fungus!

It's probably a good idea to check each of your old diskettes.
Immediately backup any diskettes with splotchy discolorations.


-- snap---


i'd like to add the following line:

", and then clean your reading diskdrive. The fungus is contagious." ;-)


-- snoot --

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Actually, the mold could attack the little felt puff that pressesthe
floppy surface against the r/w head, and from there spread to other
disks.

i have also encountered oxidized disk surfaces, that are "rugged up" and
non-shiny. I had no problems reading these disks, but the sound of
grinding against the drive head convinced me they should only be copied
and then trashed.

the mold-attacked disks, on the other hand, could in an emergency be
removed from the plastic case and rinsed. Then you could change the
inner textile lining of the  "case" (is it "jacket"?) and put the disk
back in and glue it together. Now that DD disks are so rare, this might
be a method. 

Come to think of it: a biological computer virus is kind of a scary
perspective!, maybe that line should be left out after all, so as to not
worrying people ?

/ Ronny Svedman