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From: kenneth@ukecc.UUCP (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! 1571 lock-up!
Message-ID: <680@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Oct-86 01:42:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 22 01:42:13 1986
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Reply-To: kenneth@ukecc.UUCP (Ken Herron)
Organization: Univ. of KY, Engineering Computing Center
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Keywords: Drive head sticking fix

>my 1571 won't do anything.  When I tried resetting and then reading a directory
>I get a read error.  I tried to initialize, reset, unpluged all the cables and
>replugged them, I tried the next day and the next day.  So at this point my

Try sending your drive a format command - the mandatory 45 outward head
movements should *always* knock the head free, or you could just open up the 
drive and pull the head back a bit...
My drive head occasionally gets stuck after running one of those 40-track
copy programs...the format command has always gotten it loose and I've 
yet to open my drive (or experience misalagnment problems)...

Ken the H