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- From: wayne@r-node.gts.org (Wayne)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Aligning a floppy drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.124533.17803@r-node.gts.org>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 12:45:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.200233.27945@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Organization: Public Access UNIX Information System
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- In article <1992Aug24.200233.27945@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
- >I have a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive on my EISA 486 PC which is getting read
- >errors on disks I have reason to believe are good, so I expect that the heads
- >are out of alignment.
- >
- >What's involved in realigning them? It is my vague recollection that I've
- >occasionally seen do-it-yourself alignment kits advertised containing a
- >reference disk and some kind of software. Are they for real?
- >
-
- I'd be interested in this information too.
- --
- Wayne Dawe
- wayne@r-node.UUCP
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