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- From: tratclif@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tracy Ratcliff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: 1541 Disk error...
- Keywords: c64 1541 disk drive errors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.161424.16534@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:14:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.071047.2553@cs.mun.ca> <1hhefhINNqbc@cs.tut.fi> <1992Dec27.015714.18226@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens
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- In article <1992Dec27.015714.18226@Princeton.EDU> grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Robert Weiss) writes:
- >
- > I recently arrived home to my C64 and discovered that it could no longer
- >read any files off any of my disks. I couldn't even get a directory. Well,
- >my first thought was alignment problems, but the error I found when I
- >checked the DOS error channel was "74, Drive not ready, 00, 00".
-
- When my 1571 started doing this, it was diagnosed as a broken wire in the
- flat cable to the read head. Of course, even after it was repaired, it still
- does it on certain disks.
-