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- From: pbunch@Walden.mo.net (Phil Bunch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Two unrelated questions
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 07:27:24 GMT
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- Bo (ez13942@nyssa.swt.edu) wrote:
- :
- : The second question is: one of my 1581s is acting as if its, well--
- : out of alignment. It will trip at some points on certain disks, jump
- : to track 1 and back trying to find it's place, and then return a read
- : error in failure. The mechanism is clean, so.. any ideas? It's a
- : standard DD MFM drive unit in case I need to replace it right?
- :
-
- --
-
- Since you say you have more than one 1581, you might swap the
- power supplies and see if the problem follows the "suspect"
- power supply. This was kind of a weak spot for the 1581.
- (Not nearly as bad as the old C-64 power supplies.)
-
-
- Phil Bunch N0MFC
-
- pbunch@mo.net
- or
- phil@slacc.com
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