> What do people use to align a shugart drives? The appropriate alignment diskette, an *analog* oscilloscope, and a program to step the drive around and load heads. For most drives, that's a PC and ImageDisk, but we use a DeRamp FDC+ and AFEXER for Pertec drives in MITS disk systems.
Seems we're one of the few places that will still do it for other people. I know of two other hobbyists who can align their own drives, but neither will do it for other people anymore, I think. > I plan to learn more about the Dysan tester gear because this seems to be a > popular repair > module. Be *very* *careful* mounting an alignment diskette in a drive. If you frag it, there's no getting it back. They can't be written using a regular drive. When repairing a drive, I run it in whatever alignment it is, and read/write a lot of test data to make sure it's not about to wreck my alignment diskette with an errant write. After it is 100% functional, then it gets aligned. Thanks, Jonathan
