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From: esgbs@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GARY STANDEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Realigning A1000 drives
Keywords: realign, drive
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.152244.25269@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:22:44 GMT
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In article <51034@cornell.UUCP>, johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes...
>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.
 What about adjusting the speed on the Chinon drives? Dose anyone know if 
it can be done? If so how?
                               Gary Standen

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>	John Lee		Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu
>The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.