Weirdity with my 8" drive

Rmemeebr that the last tracks are physically shorter, which means the bit density is higher on them. So if there's anything marginal -- a worn head, slight misalignment, etc -- it'll show up there first. IIRC, it means it found, say, sectors 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. It never found a sector numbered 3. This might be right (it's perfectly possible to format a disk like that), but often it means the sector header was unreadable. One thing to check is if the total number of sectors is the same on all tracks. For most systems (that can be read by a PC controller) it will be, so if you get the 'Gap in Sectors' message and there's one fewer sector found, it's almost vertain it didn't manage to read that sector header. If it was mine, I'd do the full set of tests on the drive, which would mean buying an alignment disk. And 8" alignment disks seem to be particularly expensive. -tony