<I've currently got an RX50 in bits on the bench, and I am wondering how
<on earth you align it. Does anyone know the official DEC procedure?
Throw it out and install another... ;)
Seriously they were pretty sloppy drives and alignment was factory.
<While we're on the subject, was there ever going to be a double-sided
<RX50? There's sort-of support for it (the side select input on the
The proposed design was supposed to be 40 track. At 96 track it's
alignment was only soso. There would have been a two sided one save for
someone came to their senses, literally and used the RX33 (teac fd55GFV).
That and CSSE (FS engineering arm) raised a ruckus over that drive due
it's poor general perfomance and being so noisy.
Allison