Yamaha A3000 Owner's Manual page 19

Cleaning the Disk Drive Read/Write Head
• Clean the read/write head regularly. This instrument employs a precision magnetic
• To maintain the disk drive in optimum working order Yamaha recommends that you
Never insert anything but floppy disks into the disk drive. Other objects may cause
damage to the disk drive or floppy disks.
About the Floppy Disks
To handle floppy disks with care:
Do not place heavy objects on a disk or bend or apply pressure to the disk in any way.
Always keep floppy disks in their protective cases when they are not in use.
Do not expose the disk to direct sunlight, extremely high or low temperatures, or exces-
sive humidity, dust or liquids.
Do not open the sliding shutter and touch the exposed surface of the floppy disk inside.
Do not expose the disk to magnetic fields, such as those produced by televisions, speak-
ers, motors, etc., since magnetic fields can partially or completely erase data on the
disk, rendering it unreadable.
Never use a floppy disk with a deformed shutter or housing.
Do not attach anything other than the provided labels to a floppy disk. Also make sure
that labels are attached in the proper location.
To protect your data (Write-protect Tab):
To prevent accidental erasure of important data, slide the disk's write-protect tab to the
"protect" position (tab open).
Data backup
For maximum data security Yamaha recommends that you keep two copies of impor-
tant data on separate floppy disks. This gives you a backup if one disk is lost or damaged.
read/write head which, after an extended period of use, will pick up a layer of mag-
netic particles from the disks used that will eventually cause read and write errors.
use a commercially-available dry-type head cleaning disk to clean the head about
once a month. Ask your Yamaha dealer about the availability of proper head-cleaning
disks.
Handling the Floppy Disk Drive(FDD) and Floppy Disk
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