Having aligned about 25 8" drives over the last 6 months, I can tell you that if your drive is "eating" your diskettes, the problem isn't with alignment. If it's damaging your diskette emulsion, it's likely that it's either missing the headload pad, or the head penetration is misadjusted. I don't know what the procedure for head penetration adjustment on your particular drive is, but most drives seem to require a couple of feeler guages and some glyptol to make sure it doesn't move when you're done. Before I'll consider LENDING anyone one of my no longer readily available alignment diskettes, I want to be dead certain it won't be chewed up as might happen with the misadjusted head penetration or missing headload pad, or written on as might happen with an inappropriately set-up drive or controller. Even a $1k deposit won't ensure I get back a thoroughly useable diskette, and I've not seen one for sale in over 15 years. Dick -----Original Message----- From: John B <dylanb(a)sympatico.ca> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 5:38 PM Subject: Needed: 1 IBM 8" alignment disk. here talks