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- From: das-dorf@ping.at (Richard Hable)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 1541-dos
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:55:34 GMT
- Organization: ping - Personal InterNet Gate
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- Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
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- >This archive tells how to add a single wire to a 1541 to make it read
- >MS-DOS disks if they are formatted for 180K (single-sided). An
- >accompanying program called 1541-READS DOS must be run on the C64 to
- >not only read the file, but to allow copying it to a C64 disk, The C64
-
- Gee, seems that I didn't choose a good name for the
- program. And it gets worse: the soon-to-be-released
- improved version is called 1541-reads-dos+.
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- >target disk can either be swapped in and out of the modified 1541 or
- >put in another 1541 drive for two-drive copying. I tested it with the
- >latter configuration. It worked fine, except that the TARGET drive
- >knocked the head as about half the files were starting to be written.
- >This drive is properly aligned and has no history of head knocking.
- >Has anyone else out there used this program and had this problem?
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- It must be your drive or disk. Only the standard routines
- are used for writing to the destination disk.
-
- Richard
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- E-Mail: Richard.Hable@jk.uni-linz.ac.at
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