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From: xvj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sean Ahern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1541
Message-ID: <15554@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:10:15 GMT
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Reply-To: xvj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sean Ahern)
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In article <6072@minyos.xx.rmit.oz> s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes:
>it now spins relentlessly, and the red light stays on as if to say "go away
>I am busy"

	I have the same problem with mine, too.  When I shipped my computer
equipment here to college (TV, C128D, printer, 1541), everything arrived fine,
except the 1541.  It now just spins and spins, with the red light on.  If it
is connected to the C128D, the computer tries to wait until the drive
initializes itself (which it never finishes doing).  Has anyone else out
there experienced this problem?  Has anyone found a way to fix it?  (Short of
buying an IBM and trashing the Commodore :-)

Sean Ahern
Purdue University
-- 
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