Posted By
SVS
on 2007-07-27
10:51:49
 |  Re: 1551 - alignment?
Advanced procedure:
Once open the drive, run the utility Floppy-Einstellhilfe. Now, with a plastic screwdriver you can set the screw in order to obtain the better (shorter) time (output by utility on screen) that with a 1551 is about 9. This means that you have phisically aligned the head and made as fast as possible the reading.
Do not set a value too much low (8 or less for the 1551) because you could be nomore able to read next disk (you should need a second running unit in order to load the utility to restore a good speed).
At last, check some fastloader if still continue to work. If not stepup the value (9 -> 9,2 for example).
The same procedure works on a 1541x but the optimal value is greater (10).
Hope have helped.
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