[cctalk] Re: Floppy recovery

2023-06-21 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/21/23 01:50, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023, Chuck Guzis wrote: >> the cookie to a clean jacket after cleaning.  If it's oxide shedding, I >> use a couple of drops of cyclomethicone on each side. > > Is it essentially the same as silicone oil? Because cyclomethicone

[cctalk] Re: Floppy recovery

2023-06-21 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023, Chuck Guzis wrote: the cookie to a clean jacket after cleaning. If it's oxide shedding, I use a couple of drops of cyclomethicone on each side. Is it essentially the same as silicone oil? Because cyclomethicone is just a category for three different cyclic siloxanes (D4,

[cctalk] Re: Floppy recovery

2023-06-20 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 6/20/23 13:59, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 1:53 PM Warner Losh via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> OK. I have just read in a bunch of Rainbow disks. Most of them read fine on >> the first, second or third try. Some have a sector or three amiss (I've

[cctalk] Re: Floppy recovery

2023-06-20 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 1:53 PM Warner Losh via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > OK. I have just read in a bunch of Rainbow disks. Most of them read fine on > the first, second or third try. Some have a sector or three amiss (I've not > yet checked to see if those sectors are mapped to