ScuzzBlog: Diaries 2018 March 09: Entry 1808: scuzzblog: Post: 1 Chasing the 5.25 - C64 drive checks Been a while since I last checked the active C64 drives that I have ready and available to use down here. I have various others that are in boxes and stored also in a large cupboard, but those I tend to safely keep under cover as their quality is excellent. And so to the C64 5.25" drives that I have that have been, well, hammered over their lifetime. Much worn but still functional. First though I set up a cassette tape of a test program so that I could have this on standby if my floppy disk falls over in any of the units. I say units as there are ten of these drives to check and each has its own individual unit number. C64C with Simons Basic and joystick 1571 5.25 and datasette Hmmm.. Miami Chase ( FOCUS ) Blank cassette at the ready Simple one liner to test the tape Saves to the datasette Load and save are working just fine So now I format a 5.25" floppy to test drive Formatted again to check and saved with CVINK test name which I shall use on all the other drives. This drive was Unit 9 So loaded file from tape and saved to the floppy drive on Unit 9 which is currently the 1571 you saw earlier This process will be repeated on all of the drives to check they are working Five minute break to play Miami Chase Miami Chase Unit 7 Unit 7 - Working Fine Unit 1 Unit 1 - Working Fine Unit 2 Unit 2 - Working Fine Unit 3 Unit 3 - Working Fine Unit 4 Unit 4 - Working Fine Unit 6 Unit 6 - Working Fine Unit 5 Unit 5 - Working Fine Unit 8 and Unit 10 are here working with another C64 And so all ten C64 drives are working fine

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