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From: dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (The Code Slinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Floppy alignment
Keywords: floppy,alignment,check
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Date: 16 Apr 91 14:15:49 GMT
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I have two floppy drives on my A1000 (1 int, 1 ext), and lately, I've
had a couple of disks that will work fine on one drive, but will give
a READ/WRITE error system requester when files are accessed on certain
tracks.

It would appear that one of the drives has gone out of alignment.  If
that is true (anybody else with an educated guess?), how would I go
about determining which drive is/has gone bad?  Other than taking two
disks to another Amiga and see which disk barfs on that one?

Thanks muchly,
    Chris 
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