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Posted By

MMS
on 2011-04-11
16:05:50
 Re: 1571 floppy drive: compatibility

OK, finally I got my nice 1541/II, tested with few discs, and thanks God it's works perfectly grin
(it is confirmed now that my 1541C is really dead - only the 200 discs coming with that drive may compensate me a little for this tragedy). Plus/4 still on the way, so Street Rod was the one I played with.

In fact it is funny to see next to each other the 1541C and 1541/II, what a difference! 1541/II is small and "cute", 1541C is a huge brick

The 1571 confirmed NOK (head defect), and I found an interesting ebay auction, could be linked to that strange case, that a lot of 1571s I right now aware has a head defect:

"Revision -5 for commodore 1571
ยท Corrects the bug of 310654-03 that moves the R/W head between each sector when writing on the disk's top side.
Also fixes the annoying problem with the drive not automatically detecting a 1541 or 1571 formatted disk!"



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