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From: Myke Carter <mykec@delphi.com>
Reply-to: Myke Carter <mykec@delphi.com>
X-Original-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 98 22:07:49 -0500

If you ever need to knock some sense back into a 1541 or 1571
floppy drive, this is the program that'll do it. On occasion
a drive can get knocked silly from a vicious copy-protection
scheme or from trying to read old and dying/dead disks. The
condition is so bad that initializing the drive is useless.
It often appears that nothing short of a hardware repair can
correct the problem. Before you go that far, however, give
the ol' reverse-knocker a RUN.

I wouldn't suggest using this program to reverse-knock a 1581,
CMD FD or HD drive, or a RAMLink. It will work for 1541s and
1571s set to device #8 though. I got the best results by
reverse knocking a drive of mine while a disk was in it
rather than when it was empty.

If I'm not mistaken, this program comes from the September 1988
issue of RUN magazine.

Myke

begin 600 reverse-knocker M`0@P"```CR!2159%4E-%($M.3T-+(%E/55(@1%))5D4@/2!35$502$5.($-( M155'`%H(!0`B4E5.($U!1T%:24Y%(B!0+B`Q,B`@4T505$5-0D52+"`Q.3@X M`&L("@"?,34L."PQ-2PB22(`A0@4`%-0LC$Z@4FR,2"D(#$P,#J--#`Z@@"Z M"!X`@4FR,2"D(#(P.E-0LJLQ.HTT,#J".IDB04Q,($1/3D4A(CJ8,34L(DDB M.J`Q-3J``.\(*`"8,34L(DTM4B+'*#`IQR@R."DZH2,Q-2Q!)#I!LL8H022J MQR@P*2DZ0DFR02"O(#,`!@DR`$))LD))JE-0.D))LD))(*\@,P`X"3P`4K(H M02"O(#(U,BD@L"!"23J8,34L(DTM5R+'*#`IQR@R."G'*#$IQRA2*3J.````
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end

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