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echo: tech
to: Wayne Chirnside
from: Tom Walker
date: 2004-11-26 07:59:06
subject: Re: dying burner?

->  CA> Nope. Never even saw one. There was some discussion about
->  CA> cleaning CD burner 'optics' in the W95 echo and, as I recall
->  CA> it, the consensus was that the cleaning disk was a scam. It
->  CA> would never touch the 'optics' since they don't drag on the CD
->  CA> nor would they drag on the surface of a 'cleaner' disk.


-> If the CD cleaner has a raised buffing surface that can reach the
-> optics and a gentle cleanser I can see it working, if not, not.
-> I can HEAR my 1.44 drive cleaner diskette's material hit the
-> heads when I do a dir a:                                       

But a floppy dosne't use a "Flying Head". IT drags on the Floppy Media
and the head is easier to clean becasue of that. 

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