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From: dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (Chris Dueker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Realigning A1000 drives
Summary: align, drive
Keywords: realign, drive
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Date: 22 Jan 91 00:50:29 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.165909.6648@tc.fluke.COM>, kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt
Guntheroth) writes...
>In general, the makers of 3.5" floppy drives do not provide a mechanism for
>aligning the drives.  They are manufactured to tight tolerances at the
>factory and are tested for alignment, but there isn't an adjustment for
>aligning or realigning them per se.

Okay then, how about some means of determining if a drive is out of alignment?
Forget the problem of trying to realign it, can I find out if it is out
of alignment?

I've got two drives (one internal, one external on my A1000) and sometimes
some disks will work on one and not the other.  I'd like to know which one
is bad, so I know which needs replacing.

Thanks in advance for help!

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