Nathanieltolbert
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Hello everyone. I had a local commodore 8 bit user give me a bit of hardware last week and I have been battling with a strange issue I have. Let me give you some details. As I stated earlier I went up about two weeks ago to Raymond Computers in Minnesota, the gentleman with all of the Commodore hardware and software. I bought a C128 set up while I was there. I didn't think my wife would let me get away with a 1571 drive as all he had were boxed, unopened drives, and so they were going for a fair bit. So the Tuesday after I got back while recovering from a cold I was talking with a friend of mine and he said there was a commodore user group member that was wanting to get hardware to people who were willing to use it. So we called him up and he gave me another 1541, a 1571, a C64 old style, and 2 (defective) C64c models. After some work I identified what was wrong on one of the C64c models and had it up and running nicely. Sadly the other one won't even turn on at all. Black screen. Anyway back to the 1571. Here's the strange thing. I plug it into my C128, and it says Device not present in both 64 and 128 mode. I plug the same drive into my c64 either the old style or the c style and it works perfectly fine, like a 1541 drive. So I'm scratching my head as I would assume since so much of the logic and controls are covered by the same chips inside the 1571, that the drive should work in both 1571 and 1541 mode. Has anyone heard anything like this before? If so, is there a fix for it? Thanks for any info you guys can provide!