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From: shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 Disk Drive Error Light Question
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.054152.14522@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 8 Aug 90 05:41:52 GMT
References: <90219.131526TESSIER@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <90219.131526TESSIER@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> TESSIER@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>I have an old (8 years?) disk drive on which the error light is blinking at
>power up.  I have been unable to clear it or determine its cause... any ideas?

Sounds to me like your ROM is gone.  Most of that excruciatingly long delay
at powerup is the drive calculating a checksum of the ROMs.  If it detects
an error, it's twinkle time.  Try swapping ROMs with a friend's drive and
see if things start working again.

>>> Dan
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