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From: johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Realigning A1000 drives
Keywords: realign, drive
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Date: 22 Jan 91 21:05:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.165909.6648@tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
[...]
>Those of you who are old hands will say "Nonsense, I remember realigning the
>8" (or 5 1/4") drives on my old banana pc jr."  Well, these older drives had
>an alignment screw or adjuster or whatever, and the 3.5" drives don't.  
[...]

This may be true for some drives (perhaps more likely for higher density
drives), but all three 720K 3.5" drives I have on my A2000 (one each from
Matsushita, Chinon, and Toshiba) can be aligned by loosening mounting screws
and rotating the stepper motor, just like the 5.25" drives.

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