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- From: Alan Jones <alan.jones@qcs.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: 1581 problem
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 11:38:00 GMT
- Organization: Quad-cities Computer Society
- Message-ID: <96020719150943764@qcs.org>
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- I have an intermintent problem with my 1581 drive. It is still my most
- reliable drive, but the problem seems to be getting worse. Sometimes
- when I change diskettes I get the directory from the old diskette.
- Initializing the drive, I0:, or getting a new directory do not always
- help. I just have to turn the drive off and back on to use another
- diskette. The problem may be more likely to occure after the drive
- has been on for a while. I think Desterm buffers the user directory
- inside the computer and it is more likely to overwrite the new disk
- directory with the directory from the old diskette, creating a real
- mess. My 1581 has the good controler and is equipped with JiffyDOS,
- although I usually use it in 128 mode without JiffyDOS.
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- Is this a common problem, and is there a cheap or simple fix?
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- alan.jones@qcs.org
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