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Subject: Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Problem. Help!
Message-ID: <23764DLZ@PSUVM>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 15:55:25 EST
Article-I.D.: PSUVM.23764DLZ
Posted: Thu Oct 29 15:55:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 03:43:15 EST
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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This is a posting for a friend:
     
  I own a 1541 Commodore Disk Drive and I am having numerous problems.
First of all, when I try to read or write to disk I usually get random errors
(error 23).  Most of the time this happens when the drive is writing the
high density tracks (1-17).  I tried alignment at least 10 times in the past
week and I also tried speed adjustment (normal, faster (302 rpms), and slower
(298 rpms).  The second problem is that the drive sometimes skips tracks.
For example, the one disk I formatted had track 3 where track 1 SHOULD have
been on the disk.  When the drive tried to go to track 2 the head hit the
metal bar that prevents the head to go farther than track 0.  I tried a
second write-timing chip (I don't remember the chip number), but still no
luck.  Can anyone help???  I'm going to take it to a shop soon but I was
wondering if anyone can help.  Thanks.
     
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