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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
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Subject: Re: How do you perform a floppy disk alignment?
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Date: 14 Mar 90 21:11:18 GMT
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In article <356@vela.acs.oakland.edu> bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) writes:
>>I have been experiencing problems with my 1.44M floppy disk drive
>>(It reads and writes disks that have been formatted in my drive with no
>>problems, but if I try a disk that has been formatted in another drive,

>It definitely sound like the head is out of alignment.  The best places I 
>know of that realign drives are JB Technologies in Chatsworth, CA and 
>Trax in Chicago.  Both do it for a flate rate of $45.  To align a drive
>you need a calibrated alignment disk and a dual-trace oscilliscope.

Just my $0.02 worth again, but by shopping around, you can get a brand new
(in the box) drive for about $80.  For $35 more, you'd have no down time.
And probably a 30 to 90 day warrantee to boot.  My opinion is that spending
$45, plus shipping and handling would be penny wise and pound foolish.

kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley

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