HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Re: 2 Q's: BMI & SAVE@
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:07:06 GMT
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

A poster whose name is lost to history:

| >>>Could someone post the patch to fix the "@:fname" bug

David DeSimone:

| >>OPEN 15,8,15,"S0:fname" : CLOSE 15
| >>SAVE "fname",8

Chris McBride:

| >Well This is the reason doing a simple scratch and save DOESN'T work.
| >If you don't want this nasty bug to appear, you should ALWAYS use a
| >"0:" in EVERY I mean EVERY command. In order for the above 'patch' to
| >work correctly it should read:

DeSimone again:

| Huh??  If you always SCRATCH the file then SAVE, you will not run into
| the @-save bug, because you're NOT USING @-save!!  :)

And now, yours truly:

David, so if you never leave North America you can't catch the Hong Kong
flu?  If the same bug is triggered by scratch+save, then you haven't fallen
afoul of the save+replace bug, you've fallen afoul of the scratch+save bug.
It's no help to change the problem's name: you still have a confused disk.

Chris was almost right.  To avoid it, initialize first:

open15,8,15,"i0":close15
save"@0:filename",8

or, if your well-being is predicated on believing that save@ is diabolical,

open15,8,15,"i0"
print#15,"s0:filename"
close15
save"0:filename",8

Specifying the drive number works.  Scratching first and then saving does
not (unless you scratch, initialize, and then save).  Thinking that
scratching and then saving protects you so much that you can leave out
the drive number is really asking for trouble.  ("As long as you say you're
a virgin, it's ok with me if you don't wear a condom.")

Credit to Ken Arnold for this one: a lot of disk messes blamed on save@ might
be the result of carelessness about disk ID's and initializing.  (The 1541
doesn't automatically initialize when a disk is inserted but only if the disk
ID is different.)  Take a disk out of a 1541 and insert a different disk with
the same ID, and the 1541 treats it as the same disk and uses the first
disk's BAM unless told to initialize.  WARNING: the disk ID that counts is
the one written into every sector at formatting time, not the cosmetic one
painted into the data portion of track 18, sector 0, for easy reading.  The
worst programs ever written for the 1541 are those that change the cosmetic
ID so that the user can get into serious trouble.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon)
Subject: Re: +==[====----Doodle, etc.----====]==+
Originator: rvloon@triton.cv.ruu.nl
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:01:40 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

In <C1Eut7.M6G@acsu.buffalo.edu> v131p9t3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ninstar Cybermage: Black Phoenix Rising) writes:

|"Hey guys, are there any good FTP sites for image files in Doodle,Koala, or any
|"other Commodore standard?

Whatever format you need, my Graphics Transformer can read/write it :-).

Sorry, couldn't resist.
-- 
Ronald van Loon     | Consider this: In the United States, an automobile is
(rvloon@cv.ruu.nl)  | stolen EVERY 14.7 SECONDS. 
3DCV Group, Utrecht |   If that statistic scares you, think how we felt when we 
The Netherlands     | made it up. - Dave Barry, "CHRISTMAS BUYERS GUIDE"
From: ec_ind03@Oswego.EDU (William Jhun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: REMINDER!IRC-MEETING
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:58:43 GMT
Reply-To: ec_ind03@oswego.Oswego.EDU (William Jhun)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

JUST A REMINDER:

IRC MEETING TOMARROW (1/22/92) FRIDAY  8:00pmEST #C-64

PLEASE DROP IN....and PLEASE DON'T JOIN #CBM...

-Will (nick: Backer) (ec_ind03@cloy.oswego.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: 2 Q's: BMI & SAVE@
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:09:56 GMT

john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) writes:

>>Huh??  If you always SCRATCH the file then SAVE, you will not run into
>>the @-save bug, because you're NOT USING @-save!!  :)

>For the very simple reason that the bug can appear in more than one place.
>It is only known as the save@ bug because that is where it is most commonly
>seen.

No.  It is known as the @-Save Bug because it appears in the @-Save
code.

>As far as I can tell from what people have been saying, the bug is caused by
>a failure to correctly load/store the BAM if the drive number is omitted.

You can look at what people say on the net, or you can look at what
actually happens inside the drive.  The choice is yours.

>scratch-save is safer than save@, but it will still fail from time to time.

I have hacked with 1541 DOS for a decade without seeing scratch-then-
save cause any disk corruption.  I must have phenomenal luck.

-- 
#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
#define  FALSE  1   |
#endif              | "911 Emergency Rescue Service - Can you hold, please?"
From: jm719s631@sycom.mi.org (JIM MATCZAK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: mule
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:33:05 GMT
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.977

Does anyone have a copy of the C-64 game "M.U.L.E."????

I need a copy of the docs for this game...any info would be appreciated!!
THanks
Jimbo
From: mcsdc1ph@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: HOW and WHERE to get downloads?!?!?
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:51:50 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology


Hallo!

I hear a lot of talk about downloading and uploading software.

Two questions:

(1) - How does one do this?  Please note that I'm not using a 64 for up/down
      loading, I am in fact using a PC.

(2) - Where are the sites that the software is held?  FTP sites, yesno?

I presently use FTP upload and download stuff from the PC onto a 3.5" disk
for my Atari STE (*sorry* (Hey!  I'm a 64 man at heart, and always will be!))
which is easy enough.   Can I put stuff on a 5.1/4" disk from PC, and somehow
get 64 to read the disk?

Or: Could I put the stuff on an ST disk as per usual, and the port the stuff
from ST via RS-232 into the userport?  If so, how?

Thanks in advance for any help given!

Feekzoid

(And this is just part one of Feekzoids "1001 Difficult Questions!"
 Available now!)

Ta.
From: crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: +=[==--A64 question--==]=+
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:01:23 EST
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

v131p9t3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ninstar Cybermage: Black Phoenix Rising) writes:

> Can anyone tell me how well the A64(Commodore 64 emulator for the Amiga)
> works?  Is it reasonably reliable?  I hear that it runs a little slow, but
> that doesn't concern me much.  I want to know if it'll run my software when 
> I get my Amiga.  I'm not quite willing to give up having my huge software
> library, and keeping both computers hooked up isn't a great idea either.
> 
> James Shank           	I		v131p9t3@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
> AKA: Ninstar Cybermage  A	or	shank@acsu.buffalo.edu
> XINEOHPAEGAMREBYCRATSNINMMYOWNMANANDIBELIEVEINMYOWNWAYOFDOINGMYLIFEANDMYSIGNY
> "Anyone with a .sig more than four lines long is a self important fool!"-Mare
> "OOPS!  8-)" -Ninstar, on line 5 of his .sig

That depends on what software you are running.  A64 won't be terribly 
good for something that is graphics and sound intensive (like games, 
demos, SIDplayers) but utilities work very well.  When you become a 
validated user (A64 is shareware) you will receive an interface that 
allows you to use C=64 serial cable peripherals with the Amiga (which is 
necessary for using any programs that have disk based copy protection).

If you have any other questions, let me know and I'll answer all that I 
can.  What I can say is that A64 is the best C=64 emulator available for 
the Amiga (and, I suppose, for any computer, seeing as no other computer 
has one). :)


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INet address: crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us               \\\///----\
(814) 353-9069                                        \XX/      \ MIGA
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From: msmith@cis.ohio-state.edu (michael todd smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Rad Help
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:22:53 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu

^
  I recently bought a used copy of Rad Warrior.  The only problem is that

there was no instruction book with it.  I would appreciate it if someone

could email or post the objectives/goals/commands for the game.

Thanks in Advance,
-- 
Michael T. Smith                   |Internet: msmith@cis.ohio-state.edu
Computer Science/ASC               |          mtsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Senior - OSU                       |
From: gt7797a@prism.gatech.EDU (Travis Works)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Commodore Auction
Summary: Commodore Auction Update
Keywords: FOR SALE
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:02:51 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hi!  This auction has been going on for about a week now,
and someone suggested I should cross-post it here, so here goes:

Item                    Current Bid             Notes
Commodore 64            $40 SASJVF@MVS.SAS.COM
Commodore 128           $100 (minimum bid)
1541 Disk Drive         $50 gt0196b@prism.gatech.edu
1541 Disk Drive         $20 jay@lafayette.unocal.com
                        $15 bi299aq@sdcc14.UCSD.EDU
1541 Disk Drive         $25 SASJVF@MVS.SAS.COM
Joystick                $7  mdupree@amoco.com   Can be used with Atari game system
Trackball               $20 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.BSU.EDU
                                                Can be used with Atari game system
Paddles                                         Can be used with Atari game system
Mach 5 Cartridge        $7  hughes@uvm-gen.EMBA.UVM.EDU
                                                C-64 Accelerator - 5x faster
Mach 128 Cartridge                              C-128 Accelerator
1200 Baud Modem         $20 miranda@marv.eng.uiowa.edu
300 Baud Modem
Okidata Printer         $25 SASJVF@MVS.SAS.COM  Color, Dot-Matrix Graphics
GEOS                    $10 SASJVF@MVS.SAS.COM
                                                Word Processing/Graphics, with docs
F-15 Strike Eagle                               Combat Flight Simulator, with docs
Hostage Rescue Mission                          Docs included
Sub Battle Simulator                            Docs included

Send any bids via e-mail to: gt7797a@prism.gatech.edu
Buyers are expected to pay shipping costs, if any.

Thanks!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: zmed0b@trc.amoco.com (Michael)
Subject: WANTED: C64 GAMES!!!
Originator: zmed0b@zircon
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:21:30 GMT


Hello!!

I am looking to purchase the following games.  Please respond if you have them
and wish to sell them:

		IMPERIUM GALACTUM by SSI
		SIX-GUN SHOOTOUT by SSI
		M.U.L.E. by Ozark Software
		COSMIC ENCOUNTER by SSI
		
Please respond by e-mail.  My address is zmed0b@trc.amoco.com.  Thanks!

Mike
From: roo@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Distribution: world
Subject: Demo release: Zone4 PEII [uuencoded file]
Keywords: demo,binary,download
Summary: 64 demo featuring digitized sound
Organization: Zone4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 18:57:20 GMT

I hope no one gets into a fuss about this but I'm going to be a bit of
an asshole and put up a binary (in uuencoded form) on comp.sys.cbm.

Kill the follow-up articles if you don't want to deal with it, flames
can go to /dev/null.  I don't do this often, but this is my own work
and will only be released to the public here - once only.

So here it is, the one, the only release of: Zone4 - Piratical Evangelism II

In the follow-up to this post there are 4 uuencoded files:

18678 zone4.uaa
18585 zone4.uab
18585 zone4.uac
15753 zone4.uad

Use an editor or similar to paste them together then run the works
through uudecode.

Unix: "cat zone4.uaa zone4.uab zone4.uac zone4.uad > zone4.uue"
      "uudecode zone4.uue"

The resulting file "zone4.demo" should be 51072 bytes in length.

The correct name for the file when put on C64 floppy should be:
"Zone4 PEII"

To the people who maintain 64 ftp sites (RKnop?) please put the decoded
file (or even the uuencoded parts) onto the ftp sites.  If you are on
a BBS that runs 64 stuff (and you think the demo worthy) then please
upload it.  This follows for any information service that carries
binaries.. I'm interested to know how far it will spread. (ego, I know)

I'm willing to entertain questions, comments, (friendly ;) criticism.. 
+/+\+/+\+/+chew carefully/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+
Andrew [roo@zone4.ocunix.on.ca] m a c h i n e l o v e h a t e f e a r v o i d .
** Please note change of address! ** User Id has changed from 'andrew' to 'roo'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Wanted: Flyback transformer for 1084 Monitor (Philips Made)
From: mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:16:14 EST
Followup-To: comp.sys.cbm
Distribution: world

In article <HERMIT.93Jan25003909@am.ucsc.edu>, hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
> I'm looking for a replacement flyback transformer for my Commodore
> 1084 monitor.  This is the old style, made by Philips, before the
> 1084S was produced.
> 
> According to our two local Commodore dealers, it is no longer
> made/sold by Commodore.  I was hoping someone out there in netland
> would have some helpful information, though.
> 
> If you know of any store, repair shop, or distributor that might sell
> this product, please let me know.  Note that any Philips dealer might
> be able to help--we don't have any Philips dealers around here to my
> knowledge, and I don't know Philips' name for the monitor other than
> that it was sold to Commodore and named the 1084 by Commodore.
> 
> Any and all help is appreciated.
> 

ditto, here.  When my 1084s blew, I searched for a flyback transformer with
no luck in finding one.  I now am using one of those VGA monitors that came 
with the old IBM 386SX's. (That's right-I bought a flicker free video and 
installed it into my A500 and am now putting that IBM VGA monitor to GOOD use).

But if anyone knows where to get the flyback transformer for the 1084s, I would
be able to get it fixed and use it as a TVset or a backup or even sell it for 
some $$$ (yea, right).

Please Email me if you know where to get one.

Mike
mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Re: Run
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:03:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

gregm@planet10.WPI.EDU (Gregory M Marr) wrote in
<1jinknINNmn5@bigboote.WPI.EDU>:

|  I got a postcard from the publishing company. They are giving all
| subscribers a subscription to PC World (same publisher) at 1.6 issues
| of PC World for every issue or RUN remaining. They say that this will
| start with the January issue. (I don't know if it did, as soon as I
| got the card, I called the 800 number listed and had them send me a
| refund.) They will extend the subscription of any current PC World
| subscriber. 

I phoned as well and told them I had no use for PC World, that it would cost
me the effort of picking it up from my post office box and taking it to the
recycling center without giving me any information I could use, and I would-
n't accept a subscription even as a gift.  The customer service representa-
tive told me there would be a Commodore section (a shadow of Run just as the
Gazette section of Compute is a shadow of Compute's Gazette).  She said that
our subscriptions would begin with the March, 1993, issue (they were being
held back until the Commodore section began); that Run subscribers who were
already receiving PC World would be switched the Commodore edition; and that
they were asking Run subscribers to wait for one issue to decide whether we
liked it before we cancel.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818
From: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: life after 2400 for the C64?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:26:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, d_luk@pavo.concordia.ca (LUK, DEREK) says:

>hi guys, i was wondering if the C64 can go beyond 2400. i've been using a
>2400 for some time now, and I've had the original VIC1011a RS232C adaptor
>with it too. i need to go something like 9600 or 14.4 now. someone said that
>with a swiftlink interface he ran a 14.4 on his C128. even then, i have no
>idea how to work anything above 2400 on the C64. i'm sure many of you guys
>here have faster modems than 2400 anyways! so help me get out of the cold!
>if anyone can tell me if making the C64 possible to work on hi speed modems,
>or if it's only possible on the C128. Thanx.
>
You would need a Swiftlink from Creative Micro Designs, the modem of
course, and a term program like Novaterm 9.4. An REU would help, but
you CAN do 9600 on a C64.
-- 
Basic Bits Commodore Group, P.O. Box 447, No. Ridgeville, Ohio 44039-0447
Quantumlink - RidgeRunr: County Link C= Sysop (216) 236-6126 4 nodes
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From: Troll@cup.portal.com (rf banzai tolli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 2 Q's: BMI & SAVE@
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 07:40:15 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa
  <1993Jan22.062624.23025@netcom.com> <30370@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
  <1993Jan24.043922.20002@netcom.com>

Grin- When *I* scratch a file, the new one always turns out to be corr
something!  I prefer a line like:
FI$="FILENAME":OLD$="OLD/"+LEFT$(FI$,12):OPEN15,DR,15,"S0:"+OLD$:
PRINT#15,"R0:"+OLD$="=0:"+FI$:CLOSE15:SAVE (FI$)

Thatway you always have at least the pervious version on disk in case
Murphy comes calling!

-RFT-
From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: one question
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:46:25 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de

In <C1Iwzo.H5z@ecf.toronto.edu> utukuri@ecf.toronto.edu (UTUKURI AVANINDRA) writes:


>At the ftp site ccosun, what directory is the 64 stuff in, and once I have it

/pub/rknop/

>(the files I download) on a pc disk, what is the best and easiest way to get
>my 64 to read those files?

If you have a 1571 you could read the files from a PC disk.
The other way would be via modem.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: paul@grafted.UUCP (James P. Caldwell)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Flyback transformer for 1084 Monitor (Philips Made)
Organization: GRAFTED, Central Indiana's Usenet BBS 317-881-4369
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:23:57 CST

mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu writes:

> In article <HERMIT.93Jan25003909@am.ucsc.edu>, hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William 
> > I'm looking for a replacement flyback transformer for my Commodore
> > 1084 monitor.  This is the old style, made by Philips, before the
> > 1084S was produced.
> ditto, here.  When my 1084s blew, I searched for a flyback transformer with
> no luck in finding one.  I now am using one of those VGA monitors that came 
> 
> Please Email me if you know where to get one.
> 
> Mike
> mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu

Please get me the number from the flyback and I may be able to get
one. Also if a large resistor and a cap are also melted, then
you need the 1084 repair kit, I +have+ one of those available
this is for the GRAY flyback. I may have one of the OFF WHITE 
flybacks...
                        Paul Caldwell

--
James P. Caldwell
The Grafted Branch BBS
317-881-4369
internet: paul@grafted.rn.com
uucp: ..!uunet!grafted.rn.com!paul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: 1581 vs. Datasette, which pin?
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:37:42 GMT

gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski) writes:

>A while back (like last summer) I posted a question about the incompatibility
>problem between 1581 drives and the datasette.  Someone mentioned that the
>problem was due to some or other serial line (FAST, I think) and stated that
>cutting this pin in the serial cable would prevent the interference.  Anyway, I
>now have an extra serial cable but no longer can find the information I put
>about which line to cut.

The pin is labeled SRQ on most pinouts.  Your C64 or C128 Reference
Guide should have the pinouts inside it.  That would be easier than me
telling you that SRQ is pin 1, because you don't know which pin is pin 1
without looking at the pinout.  :)

-- 
#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
#define  FALSE  1   |
#endif              | "911 Emergency Rescue Service - Can you hold, please?"
From: schuetz@fm11ap01.tu-graz.ac.at (Alexander Schuetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: V-MAX: Copy protection with disk drive mystery
Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:44:18 GMT
Organization: none
NNTP-Posting-Host: fm11ap01.tu-graz.ac.at


Hi guys, 

I have a question, well, I dunno where to place it. Maybe in 
alt.diskdrive.mysteries :) ....

On the C64, there is a quite old game called "Defender of the Crown". 
I happen to have its' original, including the everso famous "V-MAX" 
copy protection by Harald Seeley. For the fun of it, I studied the copy
protection and found out that track #20 of the disk contains important
data (the oncoming extra DOS routines) WITHOUT ANY SYNC ON THIS TRACK!!
Now imagine: $0800 bytes of GCR data on a track without any sync, and the
data still can be read without problems!

The reading routine looks like that: 4 GCR bytes are reserved as a header,
something like $37 $55 $xx $xx; can't remember the bytes exactly, but they
were all valid GCR bytes :not more than 2 0-bits and not more than 9 1-bits
in a row. The reading routine looks for the 4 GCR bytes, and if they are
NOT being found, it does the following:
lda $1c00
eor #$48
sta $1c00
; then, wait for 20 ms with timer $1c05, then again
lda $1c00
eor #$48
sta $1c00
jmp reading

Explanation: If the read routine doesnt find the header bytes, the speed
bit and the led is being toggled; a wait loop of 20 ms appears; and the
led and speed bit is being toggled again (back to normal speed 00) ; and
then; a jump to the header-read routine appears. And then, after some 
seconds, the mystery happens, the header-read routine finds the headerbytes
without being synchronized by a sync mark or similar means.

My question is: * How the HELL can some speedtoggling (from speed 0 to 2
waiting 20 ms and back to speed 0) synchronize the disk drive???????

Answers welcome.....

        Alex.


By the way: TO SVEN GOLDT! Dont u write to me anymore? Cant telnet to the 
"wiz", only FTP... tell me what to do!





















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