Just curious if you had a known "good" drive, a golden unit so to speak, that was well aligned with an authentic alignment diskette-- could you then use that drive to write plain old data diskettes that the downstream users would then align their drives to?
Could they simply maximize the read signal coming off that data diskette? I'd assume that the data written would include track number in the data so a piece of software could help ensure you are actually on the correct track while you are tweaking the gizmos to maximize the read signal. I'd assume you could get access to the raw read signal (before or after some read amplifier) on the drive and put your scope there to help you maximize that signal level. Wouldn't this result in aligning that user's drive to the sweet spot of the track(s) on the diskette if the assumption is that the data diskette was written with tracks in the right place? cje -- Chris Elmquist
