RK05 stuff (was RE: cctalk Digest, Vol 10, Issue 74)

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jun 29 16:58:47 2004

> > If the drive will reformat a pack and will then pass the read/write
> > diagnostic using it, then the only problem with the drive is alignment.
>
> Of course, it is possible that the pack could have been written to
> by an out of alignment drive and his drive is OK.

Correct. What I should have said is that only when the drive will format
and read/write to a pack do you consider alignment. At that point I'd put
an alignment pack in and see what the catseye pattern looked like. If it
was fine, then I'd assume the packs I couldn't read had been written on a
misaligned drive.

-tony
Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 16:58:47 BST