Closed Commodore 1571 drive

[dwaco]

Interested in 1571 drive. Working. Also cosmetical condition is important for me.

 

[monarchy]

i can´t dance.... i canspeak with a friend....

 

[mrr19121970]

Boxed or loose ?

 

[dwaco]

Don’t care about the box, so doesn’t matter - can be loose or boxed (unless this affects price too much).

 

[crrn]

Hi I have C1571 drive boxed. Will send PM

 

[crrn]

As discussed in the PM thread.
We have a deal.
I will pack the computer whne money arrive via PP.

To moderators:
Do we have to state more details here in the thread? We basically agreed for a deal. My C1571 + Box will be sold to @dwaco

 

[Watson]

@crrn I assume you shared a picture of your C1571 drive in PM ?

You are fine with what you have stated with regards to the deal, just announce when payment has been received and you have shipped

 

[dwaco]

Yes, @crrn provided photos (of drive from various angles, of photo of the screen of drive operation, of box) in PM exchange.
Money sent.

 

[crrn]

Money arrived. Will pack and try to send tomorrow or Monday

 

[crrn]

Here come some problems.
Before packing the drive today I wanted to test it and looks it stoped to read the disks. It makes some loud noises (by head moving back and forth) and it doesn't read the disks. not even the dir.
I will return the money for now and do more tests on weekend but I assume there ay be some issue with this drive as I haven't used it for some months now.
I have a friend who could take a look and fix it but it will cost me the money. So I prefer to return the money to buyer and after fixes offer the drive again here on Amiably.
Hope that's fine with the Amiably rules.

 

[dwaco]

I see money refund.

 

[crrn]

OK. The problem is solved and the issue was, drive was in the not initiated state.
It means, sometimes some loaders (i guess it's loaders) hang the drive and it later acts as not working. all you have to do is to initialize it with special Commodore DOS command
OPEN 1,8,15,"I0":CLOSE 1
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_1541

TBH yesterday it felt really strange to me, that the drive that was working few days (maybe weeks) before is not working anymore and then I recalled this DOS command to "unblock it"
So in other words, after init it works again.
Let me know if you want it (same price).

ps. I post it here in the thread for full transparency.

 

[dwaco]

Yes, I still want an 1571. Sent money again.

 

[crrn]

Money received. Will pack today and ship on Monday. Thanks and sorry for mess.

 

[dwaco]

No prob, rather thanks for extra testing.

 

[crrn]

Package sent

 

[dwaco]

Item received and operation tested to read, write and boot cp/m. Feedback left.