Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:38770 comp.sys.amiga.tech:6751 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!usc!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!armhold From: armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Disk Alignment Keywords: gronk gronk... Message-ID:Date: 19 Aug 89 16:26:57 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 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