Tuning 8" floppies

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Mar 23 13:10:53 1998

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, David Wollmann wrote:

> I have a MicroTech ReformaTTer unit with two 8" NEC floppies attached to a
> PC with the MicroTech FDC. Both drives seemed to be in need of a tune-up
> (head alignment, in particular) when I installed the unit, and now (this is
> four yrs. later) I can only read diskettes with one drive, the other just
> gives me "sector not found" errors.
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> Is it practical for me (me = board swapper) to try to align the heads on
> these drives manually by trial and error? Is there still a source for the
> disk required to do it the right way? I have access to a scope if I need one.

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