> I don't know if the guys at Accurite still have Drive Probe (a similar
> product to AlignIt) in stock, but they seem to still be selling it:
>
> http://www.accurite.com/DriveProbe.html
>
I can tell you from experience that they do NOT. Basically, when you call
them if they don't have it they f
A tool was published by Landmark called "Align It" and ran on MS-DOS. I
don't know if you can find it, but it was a pretty decent tester and
even provides a test log for each drive.
I don't know if the guys at Accurite still have Drive Probe (a similar
product to AlignIt) in stock, but they s
> You can normally do BETTER and more accurate alignment using an analog
> alignment diskette (+ 20MHz dual trace scope), but I think that the
> digital is "close enough".
That is what was nice about the Microtest. It used the _analogue_ alignment disk
but took the place of the 'scope and drive ex
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Howdy guys, greetings (as always) from Brazil! :o)
I'm in a repairing spree! Got 5 (!) CP-500 (Brazilian TRS-80/III clone) to
repair. All of them with single/double sided floppy drives, and the whole
nine yards.
Since it is not pratical to test
> Since it is not pratical to test all these drives on CP500, is there a
> good software solution I can use on a PC for floppy drive testing? Something
> that makes repairing easier? Long time I don't get so many drives to
> repair/refurbish/align
IMHO the ultimate PC drive exerciser was somet
