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- From: e9326185@stud1.tuwien.ac.at (Alex H.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Help: 1541-II problem
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 96 17:39:47 GMT
- Organization: TU-Wien
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- In article <30f54d92.860070@199.181.141.3>,
- root@tardis.wizvax.net (Tony Postmayer) wrote:
- >>
- >>I have a slight problem with my 1541-II.
- >>
- >>When I plug in the power cable only and turn on power, both LEDs start to
- >>light. After a second or so, one of the two LEDs starts to flash, but doesnt
- >>stop any more. There's also no motion of the motor. Same thing is even when
- >>the floppy is normally connected to the C64.
- >>Besides, I also cant access it in any way...
- >>
- >>So, what can I do ? Where can i start ?
- >>
- >
- >When the drive is powered up or reset, it does some self-check
- >diagnostics. If one of the tests should fail, the drive will blink
- >the LED in a repetitive pattern which signifies where the error
- >occurred. (for example, three blinks might be one of the ROMs)
- >
- >I don't have the blink codes right at hand, however if I run across
- >them I'll post them to this newsgroup. In the meantime, what specific
- >blink pattern are you seeing?
- >
- > Tony -
- >
- >
- actually when i power on the drive a led starts to flash but doesnt stop any
- more. it's flashing is rhytmically without any pauses. so it doesnt seem to
- me, that the drive is telling me an error-code... :(
-
- any other idea?
-