Re: Transfer a 8250 diskette

From: Niklas Ramsberg <*niklas.ramsberg_at_swipnet.se*> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:22:07 +0100 Message-ID: <CAB7bzfemrf3tLEe45-rcSKXJrXf4Om1dhe7+S43KcGLoGUvyrQ@mail.gmail.com> · niklas.ramsberg_at_swipnet.se

Hej allihopa!

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Gerrit Heitsch
<gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
>> Bottom line:
>>   NEWER EVER USE THE SAVE-WITH-REPLACE (@) FUNCTIONALITY ON A CBM FLOPPY
>>   DRIVE.
>
> Does this mean all firmware revisions of the 1541 or only the early ones? I
> think I read somewhere that the bug was fixed in some revision.
>

Commodore never fixed it on the 1541; I'm not sure about the 1571 and
1581. CMD fixed it with JiffyDOS though, so if you have JiffyDOS in
your drive(s) you can use save-with-replace safely.

/Niklas Ramsberg
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