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From: armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Disk Alignment
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Date: 19 Aug 89 16:26:57 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Hi,
	I'm working in an environment where I'm shuffeling between an
A1000 at home and an A2000 at work.  It seems that one of these
machines (or possibly both) has an alignment problem with one of their
floppy drives.  Sometimes when I try to boot from a Workbench disk the
machine just grinds away at the disk.  It takes about 5 minutes to boot
from a disk that usually boots in 3.  If I try booting a few times the
problem sometimes goes away.  I used to fix this problem in the past
by simply replacing the bad disk, but this is starting to happen on 1
week-old disks now.  Are there any programs in the public domain that 
will test the alignment of a disk drive? 

Thanks,
-George