1541 Alignment disk

You reminded me of another myth. There were programs for the 1541 that were supposed to be used with disk cleaners.they claimed to be able to lower the read/write head closer to the disk to achieve proper cleaning. a rather unknown but infamous fake copier (cruel copy) used these routines to try to damage the headsby running it on a regular non-cleaner disk. It also ran the "daisy" program (makes the drive sing the song daisy) which isn't particularly good for your drive,and disabled the software stop check and slammed the drive to track 100 (attempted) from track 1, full on at max speed into the hardware stop (also not good for the drive), it also attempted to format both the source and destination disks among other "cruel" things, hence it's name. There are a lot of "myths" of hardware out there, I think the 1541 generated quite a few.Not sure how these got started. Example I was always led to believe the magnetic flux on a disk (hard disk) needed refreshing after a few years.I think this particular one came out of GRC. I've gotta stop believing anything that guy says. Dan.