I have a 1050 hooked up to my 65XE. In the past I have owned 810's and XF551's but never a 1050 so I have no idea what to make of this. At the moment I have no disk to test in my drive. When I power it up with no disk in it - I get a repeating "boot error" message. What is happening here? Is my 1050 toast? Does anyone know if there is a diskless way to communicate with the drive to see if it send and receives with no problems. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
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1050 boot error
Started by birdie3, Dec 15 2005 7:22 PM
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Posted Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:22 PM
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Posted Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:36 PM
If you power up the computer with drive 1 turned on but no disk inserted, the computer will keep trying to boot from the drive. You must turn the drive off or put a bootable disk in it.
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Posted Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:38 PM
I need to get a disk(s). I assume that it is working. Hopefully it writes as well. Thanks Bryan.
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Posted Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:02 PM
The fact that you get a boot error indicates that the drive is communicating with the computer.
About the only thing you can do without a disk is write a short program to send a STATUS command to the drive.
And all that will do is send back 4 bytes with bitflags telling you there's no disk in the drive.
About the only thing you can do without a disk is write a short program to send a STATUS command to the drive.
And all that will do is send back 4 bytes with bitflags telling you there's no disk in the drive.
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