21 Jan
2001
21 Jan
'01
2:06 p.m.
Well, this is more a brag than something constructive, but I wrote my first
automatic Commodore 1541 disk drive re-aligner out of desperation this
weekend. I couldn't get it to read any disks and since this drive was the
internal 5.25" in the 128DCR, I couldn't just replace it. So I wrote a program
that commanded the FDC to whack the head into the restraining rail until it
could read the disk again. Voila. ;-)
The things you do when you're desperate ...
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