Duplication of a alignment floppy disk?

[anormal]

hi!,

i own a Supercard pro and while reading today some posts in various sites about aligning heads in drives
using an oscilloscope and a special alignment floppy 5,25" ,

i was thinking, is possible to duplicate disks like these?
or they contains some special signals? or am i just talking nosenses?
maybe for duplicating one disk like this i need a perfectly aligned drive before?
so my normal floppy drive can't dupe it?

ideas?, i am a totally noob here...

[admin]

Well, while it is possible to duplicate SOME of the tracks, you can't reproduce all of them because many of the tracks were written with micro-stepping. It is possible to step 8-10 times between the normal track step distance. When a drive is reading an alignment disk, it expects to find the proper track and the micro-stepped tracks that are around a "normal" track can be picked up when the drive head is out of alignment.

[anormal]

ahh! ok! understood now,
so... each of these microstepped tracks contains different data?, in the ids, or in the normal sector data?

as i think it works... aligning a drive means to center the head in the middle of each track? so track 0 and last track (39,79...) are correctly centered? the head/s i mean

[admin]

Yes, that is all correct!