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From: rond@pro-grouch.cts.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: Remember me, the one with the 3.5 drive problems?
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Date: 31 Jul 90 22:44:13 GMT
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> the sound would become more or less loud..If I went closer to track 4F, 
> it would get louder (From track to track, not sector to sector) and the 
> reverse away from 4F.  Someting like that tells me that my drives need 
> realignment....  But I'm not a hardware expert by any means (or a 
software 
> for that matter).  But I would highly appricate all input on the 
matter.. 
> BTW, I though the 3.5 drives alligned themselves, or is that just 
> for speed?  

I've seen a 3 1/2" drive head that eventually "came loose" and hung there on
the cable, not doing good things to any disk that was brought near it.  It
could be that your head "track" is tilted or something, so that the head is
rubbing on the surface of the disk more than it should, and more as you get
toward the end that is "down".

The 3.5" drives have speed control built in, but head alignment is done by
dealers, at juicy prices.

> P.S. Ron Dippold..I got your message you sent, but you never replied 
> to my messages...(Did they go to the Big Internet bucket in the sky?) 
 
Most things I try to send to you get rejected.  I assumed that the ones that I
didn't get a message back from made it through...

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