3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
10:14 p.m.
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 00:38, Jim Leonard wrote:
A friend might have a Dysan Pat-2+ 5.25" floppy
drive tester held for
me, but we both have no experience with it. Assuming it comes with the
alignment disk and manual, and functions, is it a worthwhile piece of
equipment to have? I am not a die-hard techie -- I do not own an
oscilloscope -- so I might grab it to keep my drives aligned, but not if
it's more placebo than functional.
If anyone has had experience using this unit or one like it, I'd like to
hear your thoughts.
I've used drive exercisers before, but with a scope. Dunno what you're gonna
do without one. And you need the alignment disk, not a copy, but the
original.
Do folks still consider drives worth aligning these days? If so I guess I'd
consider that worthwhile to have, otherwise probably not.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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