>Hi All,
>
>Does anyone know what the 1571 drive does "electrically" when this command
>is issued?
>
>>From what I can tell (without wiring up a Oscilliscope - which I don't have)
>it seems to hold all lines (ATN, CLK and DATA) low whilst it does some sort
>of reset of the chips etc (goes to 2MHz etc)... Is this so? and is it the
>same regardless of whether the is a disk, no disk, single or double sided
>disk???
>
>Regards,
>Nick
>
This puts the 1571 in 1571 (double sided) mode so one can format a
disk as double sided or read one already so formatted - no check
is made to see if a disk is inserted.
--Ray
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