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From: jtmorgan@brahms.udel.edu (James Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Help!  My 1050 has stopped working...
Message-ID: <19623@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 14:10:36 GMT
References: <824@antares.Concordia.CA>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <824@antares.Concordia.CA> dcfs018@Antares.Concordia.CA ( STEPHAN BOHM) writes:
>Greetings.
>
>My disk drive has suddenly refused to work.  I don't need to explain how
>difficult it is to use a computer if you can't load DOS in order to load a
>debugger in order to check the serial port data...
>
.
.
>					Jean Goulet
>					dcfs018@antares.concordia.ca

There is a small photo sensor and tranmitter on the path the disk takes when
you put the disk it.  This is what went on my drive.  the whole thing is 
built into a small plastic "u" shaped assembly.  This is what went on
my drive and gave me similar symptons that you are having.  I don't know
about the error codes though.  You might want to find a way of checking
this out.  It cost me $55.00 a few years back to have someone change one
of these on mine.  Other than that my drive has lasted me a long time.

One other caution:  I have dust covers on all my equipment and I make sure
I put them back on after each use.  The only thing that wore out was a
keyboard on my 800XL.  Hope you find your trouble and can get it repaired.