Re: Is there anyway to stop the 1541 head-banging ?
                                       
   From: fjb@torfree.net (Jim Butterfield)
   Reply to: Jim Butterfield
   Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:11:41 GMT
   Organization: Toronto Free-Net
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Christopher A. King (cking4@mail.ford.com) wrote:

: Okay -- I've never owned one of these, and was not aware of that.  Most
: of my 1541s are the earlier "brown" units, mostly Alps but a couple of
: Newtronics ones in there (and one white VIC-1541 that I was lucky enough
: to find)... the older units will bang against Track 0 on an error, but
: not when powered up or reset (at least this is how mine behave).  Thanks
: for the clarification...

There's a "bump killer" which will debang drives that do too much of this
for your happiness:

    OPEN 15,8,15
    PRINT#15,"M-W";CHR$(106);CHR$(0);CHR$(1);CHR$(133)
    CLOSE 15