Re: Aligning a floppy drive?

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From: Wayne
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:45

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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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From: wayne@r-node.gts.org (Wayne)
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Subject: Re: Aligning a floppy drive?
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