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- From: shrimp@venture.fipnet.fi (SHRIMP)
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- Subject: Re: Misc drives faulty--HELP!
- Message-ID: <8BC73F8.0077000211.uuout@venture.fipnet.fi>
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 16:56:00 +0200
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- Organization: Venture / +358-0-8092126 / Demos, C64 & Spectrum software
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- -=> Quoting Jeffrey Thomas Sheldon to All <=-
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- JTS> @FROM :jsheldo@tiger.lsu.edu
- JTS> N @UMSGID :<4hhfh5$ol6@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu>
- JTS> N @UNEWSGR:01comp.sys.cbm
- JTS> N
- JTS> Lately, I've been losing drives on my C=64c. Regardless whether or
- JTS> not the machine's bad, the drives all display common errors. These
- JTS> drives are:
- JTS> 1571, 1541-II, and a 1581.
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- JTS> Basically everything's fine until I try to read any disk. I turn the
- JTS> computer on and the drives cycle for a second like normal, but if I
- JTS> try to get a directory or run a program on a disk (that will read fine
- JTS> on a working drive) it starts to access and then does the normal
- JTS> chugga-chugga or flashing light. Then the 64 says "file not found".
- JTS> This will even happen if there's no disk in there and the drive is
- JTS> open. I can understand it telling me "device not ready", but this is
- JTS> pretty obsurd.
- JTS> Can anyone thing of what may be at fault here? Is it possible that
- JTS> some related chips went bad? The 1571 was working fine one morning
- JTS> and then started to die suddenly (it wouldn't let me access it at
- JTS> first, then I'd hook it up to another Commodore 64 and it would, then
- JTS> it just simply stopped reading right).
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- JTS> Thanks for ANY advice.
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- JTS> -Jeff
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- I've had the problem tens of times: the reason must be bad disks.
- I've encountered these "disk jams" numerous times and most of the time
- i've gotten the jam off by formatting without a disk with my
- Action Replay. I guess a normal DOS formatting would probably do...
- just stop using old or bad disks!
- shrimp
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