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- Short: Recalibration tool for floppy drives
- Author: thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
- Uploader: thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
- Version: 1.0
- Type: hard/misc
- Requires: Kickstart 2.04 or better. One working floppy drive. A joystick.
-
- Phillips screwdriver set. Nail polish.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Introduction:
-
- This little tool can be used to re-calibrate floppy drives manually. This does
- not mean that I recommend doing so. In case you're "mechanically declined", you
- should leave this to an expert, or should consider buying a new drive. In case
- the drive is broken, it is broken, and this tool won't help much.
-
- De-calibrated drives show the following symptoms: They read disks written by
- themselves fine, but fail to read other disks reliable, and disks written to by
- the decalibrated drive do no longer work reliable in other disk drives. In case
- the drive just doesn't work at all anymore, something more is broken. In either
- case, you run into the risk of damaging your hardware even more. Note that I
- cannot give any guarantee whatsoever that this program and the hints given here
- are correct, free of errors, etc... The entire risk is up to you. If you break
- your drive or your computer, tough luck! I refuse to take any responsibilities.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- The THOR-Software Licence (v2, 24th June 1998)
-
-
- This License applies to the computer program and documentation known as
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- Thomas Richter. Each licensee is addressed as "you".
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- Thomas Richter
-
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- So long,
- Thomas (September 2000)
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 7248 3908 46.0% 25-Sep-00 20:47:56 +TrackDiskSync
- 13834 5389 61.0% 25-Sep-00 22:26:48 +TrackDiskSync.Instructions
- 4755 2142 54.9% 25-Sep-00 22:28:20 +TrackDiskSync.readme
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- 25837 11439 55.7% 27-Sep-100 04:49:30 3 files
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