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- Path: news.heather.heide.de!ComBox!pet2001
- From: pet2001@combox.heide.de (Dirk Moell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Help diagnose crippled CBM 8050 drive!
- Message-ID: <NeN2iD1w165w@combox.heide.de>
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 14:19:10 MEZ
- References: <4erc0g$h39@news.microsoft.com>
- Reply-To: pet2001@combox.heide.de (Dirk Moell)
- Organization: ComBox D-29223 Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany, +49 5141 930014
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- doriang@microsoft.com (Dorian Garson) writes:
-
- > Hi!
- >
- > I just pulled my old SuperPET SP9000 and CBM 8050 dual-5.25"-floppy drive
- > out of the attic.
- >
- > Problem: the 8050 won't spin up either drive when I try to read from it
- > ("directory", etc.). The SuperPET just hangs. The drive LEDs flash
- > red/green six times, pause, repeat, and continue as soon as it's powered
- > up.
- hi, dorian,
- these flashes are the internal power up selftest of the floppy,
- six times from a 8050 means ram 2114 at c4 or c5 is fault.
- if any errors found at the selftest, the floppy will not respond to any
- commands.
- hope it helps,
- dirk
-
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