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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Trouble with 1571
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 01:59:32 -0500
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- Reply-To: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
-
- I just got my first 1571, and it does a couple of things that bug me.
- First, when I shut the power off on the computer, the drive light comes on
- for a second and the drive motor runs, like my 1541's do, but the 1571
- keeps running forever, even though the drive light goes off after a
- second. Is this normal?
-
- Second, if I insert a 1541 formatted disk and try to get a directory
- (usually from within Desterm), the light flashes a lot and it takes
- forever. Is this because the drive is in 1571 mode, and is having trouble
- reading the 1541 disk? (this just occurred to me) If so, should I just
- send a U0M0 to put it into 1541 mode first?
- Desterm has a disk command option in the drive menu, so that would be no
- problem.
-