Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!dillon From: dillon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Back on the net, and Re: Flash 1541 oddity Message-ID: <10877@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 16:31:27 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10877 Posted: Sat Nov 2 16:31:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 08:58:46 EST References: <244@cernvax.UUCP> Reply-To: dillon@ucbvax.UUCP (Matt Dillon) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 32 Keywords: 1541, Flash, dust Hello, all. I'm back on the net again. Bryce Nesbit is actually in Berkeley this moment, but he's rather busy and probably won't be using my account much to post to the net. Hmm.... I havent touched my poor C64 for sometime, it's collecting dust in my closet, but hopefully I'll stay on a while longer. Cherio, -Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > In reply to your posting of a problem with 1541 Flash, where you > would want to get a directory while it was doing a 's0:*' Is this the only command your problem came up with? The 1541 can only do one thing at a time; you can't get a directory WHILE it's scratching or doing any other operatiton. The proper action that the C64 should take in attempting to send a command to thte 1541 while the 1541 is busy is: (A) you send a >s0:* (A1) -The 1541 begins scratching the files (B) you send a >$0 (or $, or $0:*...) (B1) -The C64 freezes up until the 1541 is done with thte >s0:*, then sends your directory command (B2) -The directory appears on your screen. Did you wait long enough? For a packed disk, a s0:* command would take quite a bit of time.... has this happened with any other commands? -Matt