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- From: jamesch@ix.netcom.com (James Chamblin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Trouble with 1571
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 13:43:57 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
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- In article <4cftsk$h4e@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
- elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas) wrote:
- >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.
-
- Sounds to me like you have original ROMs. You should upgrade the drive
- ROMs or get JiffyDOS (which comes with updated code in the ROM).
-