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- HeadClean by Phil Burk of Delta Research
-
- 7/14/89
-
- HeadClean is a Shareware program and may be freely redistributed
- for non-commercial purposes.
-
- The heads on your floppy disk drives are just like the magnetic
- heads on your VCR or audio tape deck. They can accumulate
- oxides and grime that interfere with reading and writing disks.
- If you are getting unexplainable errors when reading or writing
- to floppy disks you may have dirty heads.
-
- Many people clean their heads every month. How often you clean
- your heads depends on many things: how often you use your
- drives, whether you smoke near your computer, what you smoke,
- what kind of disks you use, humidity, etc.
-
- HeadClean V2.0 is designed to work with the fibre cleaning disks
- available from Radio Shack and other stores. It "wipes" the
- heads of your disk drive on several cylinders of this fibre disk
- by attempting to format it. It also keeps track of which
- cylinders have been used. Without this program, Amiga DOS will
- attempt to read the fibre disk and immediately fail before
- giving the heads the good 20 second cleaning which they need.
-
- If you don't have a fibre cleaning disk and just want to see how
- this program works, you can substitute an UNformatted disk for
- the fibre disk. You will be able to pretend you are cleaning
- one drive. It will NOT really clean anything. If you
- accidentally put a formatted disk in the drive it will detect
- this and not use it. This feature protects you from destroying
- data on working disks.
-
- For instructions on how to use HeadClean V2.0, run it. Then
- click on the "Help" gadget. It is safe to do this even without
- the fibre disk.
-
- I hope you find this program useful. If so, please send a ten
- dollar check, payable to Phil Burk to the following address:
-
- Phil Burk
- Dept. HC
- Box 1051
- San Rafael, CA
- USA 94915
-
- This program was written using JForth Professional 2.0 available
- from Delta Research. You can write to the above address for
- more information on JForth.
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