RE: C128D/1571 issue

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this hack ... It should be applicable to european C128D
and SX64 without cutting traces but only one wire on link cable following
the same principe.

Regards - Hervé

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De : owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
[mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de] De la part de Daniel V. Mackey
Envoyé : vendredi 4 septembre 2015 03:30
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Objet : Re: C128D/1571 issue

At 09:00 PM 9/3/2015, you wrote:

http://alanger.net/comm/misc/big_page.html


>Hi if I remember right the European 128D is different than the U.S. made
>128DCR, but maybe some
>things are similar.
>
>I have 3 128DCR's and they all had the same problem.
>There was a guy in the U.S. Al Anger that did a hack years ago, what this
>does is you cut one trace and
>solder onto the pad of the cut trace and 2 other traces you solder wires
>onto, on the other end of these wires you solder the wires to a simple
>OFF/ON toggle switch.  This totally disables the internal 1571
>controller board, but the usual IEC serial port is not affected and you can
>then use Device#8 since the internal 1571 ties this up (really
frustrating).
>But Im not sure if the Plastic European 128D internal 1571
>circuit is on a separate board or on the Motherboard?  I think Al was doing
>this on a 128DCR, but I can
>find out if he included the European model.
>I did this hack to one of my 128DCR's and the annoying problem of disks has
>gone away and the only real
>solution I can think of.  I will look for the paper for this hack and post
>again.
>
>
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