Re: Grappler +/DuoDisk/Accellerator questions

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote in message
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: littlejohn918 wrote:
: > Hi Sean,
: > I don't know why everyone dislikes the DuoDisks so much. Out of the
: > five I own and use, only one every had a problem and it was an easy
: > fix.(Drive speed on second drive had to be adjusted.)
: > -James
:
: I'll second the DuoDisk, not only have I never had any problem with it,
: but it looks much nicer on top of my IIe.  When I had two UniDisk
: drives, putting a monitor on them caused them to tilt a bit which
: always worried me.
:
: Speaking of drive speed adjustments, how do you know if you need to do
: this?  The reason I ask is that in 20+ years of owning Apple II drives
: I've never adjusted the speed or alignment.  They seem to work just
: fine, but I've always wondered if they were slowly going to go bad.
: Are there symptoms you should look out for?


The easiest way to check drive speed is with Copy II Plus 9.1,
and use the Verify/Drive Speed command on the menus. Be sure to
use either a new blank disk, or one you no longer care for.

As far as alignment goes, if you can read any number of original
disks, store-bought we call them here, then I'd be fairly certain
that your Track "0" alignment is good.

Bill Garber
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