EX2000 Floppy Drive Tester

[Dave Dunfield]

> Not that I'd toss it if one of those were to come my way...
> 
> Somewhere I also have a "drive exerciser" cartridge that plugged into a Yamaha 
> CX-5 computer as well -- this was no doubt meant for their drive but would 
> work equally well with any other drive that could be plugged in and powered 
> up if you adjusted the value of the maximum track number,  which was easy 
> enough to do in the software since it ran in BASIC.  It came in handy a few 
> times.

What exactly does the "drive excerciser" do which comes in handy?  -- I've got
some diagnostics and drive test tools built into ImageDisk which I find very useful,
and I'd be happy to add any other such functions that folks need (provided of
course that it can be done with the PC hardware).

Dave

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