Re: [cbm4linux-users] a few questions

[Ryan U. <nem...@ic...>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:14:57PM +0100, Martin Brotzeller wrote:
> Nice to read such a thing.
> I have a 1541 i knew was working fine until i carried it to a friend.
> Now it can't read any more disks, it just returns errors. Unfortunately
> i have no program to re-align the head, is there something available on
> the net? I found no one so far who has any original disks with such
> programs and i was told it was a vendor-only thing.

I think the problem is that you need an alignment diskette to go along
with any alignment software.  This alignment diskette probably shouldn't
be copied because any copies will have generational loss and might not
be good for using as an alignment reference.  You could probably pick up
an alignment diskette on Ebay, and copy an actual alignment program to
another disk by use of a X1541 cable.  There are lots of 1541 alignment
programs out there.  Or you could wait for someone to write an alignment
program that runs on PC with X1541 setup... ;)  (but don't hold your
breath on that)

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Ryan Underwood, <ne...@ic...>