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From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1541 Blues
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.102401.17674@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 10:24:01 GMT
References: <9103221704.AA09898@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <9103221704.AA09898@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> ap515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
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>Just recently my 1541 has started acting up on me.  It will work
>fine for a while, then, it will refuse to load anything from
>the disk.  It searches the disk, but it's as if it's encountered
>a read error.

This is probably a heat problem.  If your drive heats up too much, the
parts will expand, and the drive will go out of alignment.  When it
cools off, it will return to its previous alignment.  1541's are not
noted for their heat dissipation.

Get a small fan to blow cool air across your disk drive, and see if that
helps.

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