[Coco] Calibrating disk drives

[Mark Marlette]

Spencer,

It could be as simple as the RPM is off. Adjusting might not be so simple, some are, some are not.

There were some CoCo disk programs that did check the disk speed. Don't recall the names at the moment.

 
Mark Marlette
http://www.cloud9tech.com
mark at cloud9tech.com


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 From: Spencer via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 7:16 AM
Subject: [Coco] Calibrating disk drives
 

Greetings all.

I have a 26-3022 and 26-3029 drives;  both write to disks fine, but when I put one disk from one into the other I get the dreaded ?IO Error.  Someone told me one or both drives are out of calibration and will ultimately fail 100% at some point.

I've never calibrated drives myself.  Is this something that can be done at home or is there specialized equipment needed for this?   Or is there anyone out there that knows a place that can recalibrate them?

Thank you!

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