Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!cbmvax!hedley
From: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1571 diskette seating
Message-ID: <3141@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 16:23:06 GMT
References: <8801131406.AA05957@NADC.ARPA>
Reply-To: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8801131406.AA05957@NADC.ARPA> prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle) writes:
>My own experience and that of other members of our user's group shows that
>the 1571 has an annoying property of failing to properly seat (center on the
>spindle hub) a diskette about 5% of the time one is inserted.  This is curious
>because the 1571 DOS purposely turns the spindle during disk insertion
>specifically to help it seat properly!  Normally, this is just a minor
>annoyance - you insert a diskette and try to load a file or directory and the
>drive does a lot of retries or fails completely.  So you just take the disk
>out and put it in again and generally all is well.
>

Gee, works ok for us.
Of course, Fred and I both have a curious habit of inserting the disk,
closing the lever, and then wiggling the disk back and forth a couple
of times in the drive. 

Hedley