FDS Test/Maintenance Disk(s)?

Started by eppoky, September 08, 2016, 08:36:09 pm

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eppoky

Hello all! This is my first post here, but I've been a lurker for the past few months getting up to speed with this magnificent piece of 80's hardware. My question pertains to any type of maintenance media for the disk system; primarily: does it exist? I.e., are there any known disks/dumps that will allow you to verify calibration settings of the FDS itself? I'm aware of some of the copier hardware/software that was able to do some of this, but I've not been able to dig up any information on "official" test/repair disks that are all inclusive. I did come across this thread discussing one of the pink disks for verifying Disk Writer writes, which is interesting, but not exactly what I'm after. Honestly, I'm assuming this is something that doesn't exist, but I figure it's worth asking about.

Just want to throw this out there: thanks to all of you people for contributing here! I've learned a lot reading through everyone's comments the past few months.