Calibration of 8" floppy drive?

I think it is worth pointing out that the things you need an alignment disk for are mostly, if not wholely, 'interchangeability adjustments'. They have to be right for that drive to work with disks from other drives (and vice versa) but not for it to work on its own with its own disks. Consider the head radial alignment (what most people mean by 'head alignment). If it is off, then the drive will not be able to read disks formatted elsewhere, the head will not be on the right track. But the drive _will_ be able to format, write, and read a bulk-erased disk (which, of course willl not be useable on other drives). So if a drive will not do that, then it is a waste of time trying to do an alignement. There are other problems. Fix those first, then see if it needs aligning. -tony