On 03/30/2021 02:13 PM, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote:
Can?t see the web page, it?s blocked. But yes, I could
definitely use an alignment taoe.
If you have access to a drive that is properly aligned, you
can write a tape with long blocks of all 1's in NRZI (800
BPI) mode. That works quite well for the purpose. Reading
that on a drive out of alignment will work just as well as
an alignment tape.
Jon