| Author: | Anubis (registered user: 12 posts ) |
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| Date: | Sat, Jun 06th, 2009 @ 06:07 ( . ) |
I was hoping that I lucked out and got a super sturdy drive, but while nibbing some disks, my drive got out of alignment. I super cleaned the head, greased the rails, etc. Still nothing. I got a hold of an ALPS service disk, but it's just a copy of the .prg, and I have read online that copies of alignment disks are fair at best. It says to put in a reference disk #97....? It also calls for the use of an oscilliscope, which I don't have (unfortunately). Luckily, I swapped my parallel modded board into another newer (Mitsumi) drive. This is working, but from the amount of disks I still have to do, I really need to figure out how to align my drive correctly. I've read several articles online, but they vary in scope a lot. Any tips on how keep my drives healthy? One more question: Is the 1541-II more reliable? I have a couple of those, and the mod looks pretty easy for the cable. I even found a couple of 40 pin IC sockets so that I could do a fancy job installing the parallel cable. |
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