head alignment tape

[Jon Elson]

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