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- Reply-To: ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni)
- From: ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni)
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 15:32:09 GMT
- Subject: Help: 1541-II problem
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- >>
- >>When the drive is powered up or reset, it does some self-check
- >>diagnostics. If one of the tests should fail, the drive will blink
- >>the LED in a repetitive pattern which signifies where the error
- >>occurred. (for example, three blinks might be one of the ROMs)
- >>
- >>I don't have the blink codes right at hand, however if I run across
- >>them I'll post them to this newsgroup. In the meantime, what specific
- >>blink pattern are you seeing?
- >>
- >> Tony -
- >>
- >>
- >actually when i power on the drive a led starts to flash but doesnt stop any
- >more. it's flashing is rhytmically without any pauses. so it doesnt seem to
- >me, that the drive is telling me an error-code... :(
- >
- >any other idea?
- >
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- That actually happened to me with a SupBrain 40 disk drive,
- turned out the 555 Timer IC was buggerised. Checked the timers in
- your's yet ? If the computer expects something to happen, and the
- timer hasn't done it yet, heads will roll !
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- Cheers !
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- Chip Pieorni..
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