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From: fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1581 drive
Message-ID: <2099@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 12:10:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2099
Posted: Mon Jul 13 12:10:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 04:07:29 EDT
References: <6266@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: 1581
Summary: tell me too!

In article <6266@eddie.MIT.EDU>, whizzo@eddie.MIT.EDU (David Hardy) writes:
> I have a Commodore 1581 disk drive and a Commodore 64 computer.  After I got
> the drive I was told that it uses MFM rather than GCR, and that MFM has a bug
> in it which can cause errors in reading data.  
> 
> Can someone enlighten me as to what this means, what the bug is, if any, how
> it manifests itself, and how to avoid it, etc...
>                      David Hardy    (whizzo@EDDIE.MIT.EDU)

Yeah, I could use enlightening too.  So far, the 1581 seems pretty clean. My
mailbox is always open to bug reports, and I will certainly summarize such
demonstrable things to the net.  I am currently looking into two such reports
(one via email- thank you) and one by telephone.

Please, if you are experiencing a problem, let me know!  I have nothing to
lose by helping you out...
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