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From: slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy disk "adjustment" screw
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.203306.8527@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:33:06 GMT
References: <91013.115359UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <91013.115359UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>I have an A1000 that, until this morning had a dead internal floppy,
>a Matsushita/namiki.  It would read the KS disk, but not the WB.  After
>fooling around with it awhile, to no avail, I noticed a small adjustment
>screw on the bottom.  Since nothing else had worked, I started adjusting
>the screw.  After 2 turns counter clockwise, it would no longer even read
>the KS disk, so I started the other way.  After 5 1/2 turns clockwise (from
>the original position) it started to work again.  OH BOY!!!
>
>Anyway, I now have a working A1000 again.  Still, it makes me nervous because
>I don't have the faintest idea what I've done.  Could some kind soul out there
>enlighten me?  Thanks.

I calculate a 93.46% chance that you adjusted the disk rotational rate.
Usually, that is the part of a drive that goes out of alignment.