Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!elroy!mahendo!jplgodo!wlbr!scgvaxd!trwrb!cadovax!gryphon!pnet02!howie From: howie@pnet02.cts.com (Howard Herman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: #1571 Message-ID: <2324@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 29 Jan 88 10:00:42 GMT Sender: root@gryphon.CTS.COM Organization: People-Net [pnet02], Redondo Beach, CA. Lines: 34 In article alex@.UUCP <...!psuvax1!gallua.bitnet!11tstark> (Alex Laney/Tim Stark) writes: > Last December, I used my commodore 128 with my 1571 disk drive. I tried >copy my file to other diskette by using PIP A:=E:. pip loaded and >run then it tried to copy it and it gave me fatal error message: >ERROR: I/O DISK ERROR. I tried copy a file again and it gave me the same >message. I turned off and on my commodore 128. I tried to dir my normal >diskette. 1571 displayed green led brief. I tried to type PRINT DS$ and >it gave me that 71, DRIVE NOT READY, 00, 00 but diskette already is in. > > I took my 1571 to repair shop. The techinaian said that 1571 have >bad machinism defective and head defective. It costs me $130. After two years of use one of my #1571's did the same thing. I recalled a FOG article about an Ossie that did the same thing, and the author's solution. I got out my "red" and "blue" stereo contact cleaner, removed the corrosion and cleaned the pins on the serial plugs to the #1571. Replugged everything, and my #1571 has been humming along happily ever since. It took five minutes, and cost nothing. Cleaning the serial contacts is now part of my annual maintenance schedule. [BTW, if you want #1571's and #1581's that run so quiet that you do not even know they are working, use a light silicon or teflon (from Radio Shack) based oil on the head tracks, as part of routine maintenance. It will make your drives as quiet as a RAM Disk, almost.] Howie Herman UUCP: {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax rutgers!marque}!gryphon!pnet02!howie INET: howie@pnet02.cts.com