Posted By
Me
on 2005-10-04
03:26:04
|  Re: Using Commodore 1541 disk drive on a Commodore + 4
Don't Ever Turn on or start a 1541 with a disk in the drive!! That was the surest way to corrupt a directory. Unlike our modern floppy drives on a PC, the 154x series was notorious for writing garbage bytes to a directory during diagnostic/powerup. The 1581 didn't have the problem. Some of the early 1571 drives had the problem. You will note that "autobooting" commie disks didn't happen until the 1571/81 drives became common... Shame on you...
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