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lucadip · 26 October 2015, 23:14

First, thanks for all the info.

I went on and wrote a small piece of code which just reads track 0, track 40 and again track 0 and track 40. Nothing else.
Guess what? After the code ran a few times (properly reading the tracks!), the drive is now happily recognizing all the disks again.
I don't believe that I coded a kind of magic program that can fix misaligned drives. Probably the truth is that the drive wasn't used for such a long time, that after being stressed for a while it found back its alignment?!

BTW, I know that this kind of documentation is available electronically and is even online, but having the "RKRM Devices" opened next to the keyboard and close to the DevPac manual gave me a nice, warm feeling! :-)

26 October 2015, 23:14	#13
lucadip Where is my mind? Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Nürnberg, Germany Age: 49 Posts: 129	Drive back to normal life! First, thanks for all the info. I went on and wrote a small piece of code which just reads track 0, track 40 and again track 0 and track 40. Nothing else. Guess what? After the code ran a few times (properly reading the tracks!), the drive is now happily recognizing all the disks again. I don't believe that I coded a kind of magic program that can fix misaligned drives. Probably the truth is that the drive wasn't used for such a long time, that after being stressed for a while it found back its alignment?! BTW, I know that this kind of documentation is available electronically and is even online, but having the "RKRM Devices" opened next to the keyboard and close to the DevPac manual gave me a nice, warm feeling! :-)