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From: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: 1581 question, cp/m directory
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Date: 7 Feb 89 13:38:36 GMT
Reply-To: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd)
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      Well, I seem to be having trouble mailing stuff again, so I'll have        to post the letter I was trying to send:

     Is there a program for the 1581 similar to the 1571 tester you posted?
     I have a 1581 I bought used, and often when I copy files to an '81 disk,   (usually using WarpSpeed), parts of the directory get screwed up (which, I 
assume, means I need the replacement ROM).  A friend of mine has a 1581 that    died on him (read-write head broke off or something to that affect), and it     would cost him more to fix it than to replace it.  Before he throws it away or  sells it for spare parts, I'd like to try my drive out with the ROM from his    drive (without having to copy a bunch of stuff & then check the directory).
Which chip is it that's the problem, and does the upgrade have a different #    than the original?  Also, what is CBM's policy on the upgrade ROM?


Thanks,
Don


      Now that I think of it, I've got a few more questions:

      I'm writing a disk cataloging program for my 128 (in 128 mode), and even  though I haven't messed with cp/m since the day I got my 128 (or was it the day
I got my monitor so I could finally see it in 80 col.?) I'd like to include cp/mcataloging capability to it.  Problem is, I know nothing about reading cp/m-for-matted disks, and the manual that came with my 1571 is sitting under a pile of  cardboard boxes right now in a storage shed somewhere on rt. 40. 
Anyway, can anybody give me a subroutine to read the disk name, file names and  types of the directory of a cp/m disk.

Thanks again,
Don again.