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From: oronquil@megatest.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1541 8/9 switch
Message-ID: <1072@megatest.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 11:42:06 EST
Article-I.D.: megatest.1072
Posted: Thu Feb 26 11:42:06 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 10:16:30 EST
References: <2221@mb2c.UUCP> <2636@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: oronquil@megatest.UUCP (Omy Ronquillo)
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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In article <2636@well.UUCP> abd@well.UUCP (AbdulRahman Dennis Lomax) writes:
>In article <2221@mb2c.UUCP> jbh@mb2c.UUCP writes:
>>I have discovered an interesting method of adding unit eight/nine selection 
>to
>>a 1541.  My technique does not require any external switches, only a single
>>two inch wire inside the case.
>> ....
>>You have just wired the disk controller address option pad to the write prot
>ect
>>sensor. .......
>
>Unfortunately, this method will default to drive 9 if a read-only disk
>is fully inserted when a drive reset occurs. This will make it unusable
>with some commercial copy-protected games which require a drive 8 and
>which apparently reset the drive as part of their scheme. The proposed
>modification will make it impossible to use this software with the
>drive....

	Then turn on the drive without a disk.