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| From: Nicolas Welte
Date: 2002-01-07
Subject: Re: 1551 adjust & align
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"C.M.Scortegagna" wrote:
>
> Hello,
> due I'm fighting with my 1551 since some days,
> can you help me to align the head or to adjust
> the motor speed?
> Note I've already checked the micros: I'm sure
> they are OK.
> The drive always gives me a 21 READ ERROR, with
> all the disks. No dir is load.
Did you try to format a fresh disk? If that doesn't work, it's very probably the r/w head that is broken. Pretty common problem with those Newtronics D500
drives. The good thing is, you can use a complete drive mech from a 1541 as a replacement (maybe after rewiring the plugs a little bit).
Nicolas
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