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- From: aa363@yfn.ysu.edu (Jacob Huebert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 1541 Crisis!
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 05:44:46 GMT
- Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
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- References: <4g6vdg$ehl@news.tdl.com> <4g65l4$f0h@news.ysu.edu>
- Reply-To: aa363@yfn.ysu.edu (Jacob Huebert)
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- In a previous article, tuna@tdl.com (Chris Cochems) says:
-
- >I bet that the head got repositioned by some protected software outside
- >track 35, and it is now stuck there.
- >
- >The standard head movement routines fail when the head is on an
- >unformatted track.
- >
- >To fix this, open the drive dor and try to load a program. If you use
- >Fastloaders, try sending an initialize command to the drive. This should
- >cause a head bump, and get you the normal click. After this, your other
- >software will probably work fine.. :)
-
- I'm not sure if this is exactly what you had in mind, but I formatted
- a disk with Fast Load, and it has worked since. Thanks for the
- suggestion. :)
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- Jacob Huebert
- aa363@yfn.ysu.edu
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