From: RayBryan (raycomp_at_visi.com)
Date: 2008-01-18 21:03:30
On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:32 AM, William Levak wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, RayBryan wrote:
>
>> I have wrestling with a drive repair for weeks now. I thought I
>> had it all fixed; it was reading the Dysan 224a alignment (analog)
>> diskette (Commodore 970016 01 48 TPI alignment diskette) with sine
>> wave tracks on 16 & 18 and 34 (according to Dysan docs) and so it
>> then passed the all the Commodore Consumer Diag V2 tests except
>> the #7 test to fast format and write then read selected tracks
>> (well it did pass that test with one of the F15 scratch disks).
>> But it would not format a floppy always reporting 21 read error 00
>> 00. I tried then formatting with 3 more Newtronics drives and
>> got that same response.
>
> Are you sure your floppy disks are good? Do they read and write on
> a different type of drive? Do they read and wrie on a DOS machine
> (assuming you still have one with a 5 1/4 drive?
>
> I sometimes have to bulk erase floppies to get them to work in a
> different format.
I have tried the diskettes in other 1541 or '71 drives. I only read
old MSDOS diskettes these days on the 1571.
--Ray
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