Hi

Can anybody help me. I have been using my 1541 drive hooked up to
my PC and star commander to make copies of my old software into
disk images. My old drive seems to be working fine. I decide to dig
out
my old 64c and reassemble my system. I pluged everything in and all
was fine. I turned the whole system off and plugged in
my old Star printer (daisy chaining it to my disk drive. The system
hung when I turned it on so I turned the system off and unplugged my
printer.
When I tried again without the printer  I get a device not present
error. I have tried
swapping 1541 drives (I have two and both still work fine with my pc),
also
I swapped the 64 itself to my very old original c64 but still no luck
(the printer
was never connected to this 64?). Finally I swapede out  serial 
cables in case one was bad but no luck. I seem to
remember that there were open and close commands to the devices
but don't remember exactly. Could this be the problem? I know that
daisy
chaining the printer seems to have somehow effected the system but
don't
know what to do. 

Thanks for any help
Steve Stanley

Hi Steve,

On 30 Aug 2003 16:22:34 -0700, basketball@macrunner.com (Steve
Stanley) wrote:
>When I tried again without the printer  I get a device not present
>error. I have tried swapping 1541 drives (I have two and both still
>work fine with my pc), also I swapped the 64 itself to my very old
>original c64 but still no luck (the printer was never connected to
> this 64?).

If the drives still work when connected to the PC with Star Commander
if is possible that the CIA's which talk to the disk drives are toast.
:( On your old 64 you can test this by swapping U1 and U2.

/*Raj*/

"Steve Stanley" <basketball@macrunner.com> wrote in message
news:de205817.0308301522.7e481dfc@posting.google.com...
> Hi
>
> Can anybody help me. I have been using my 1541 drive hooked up to
> my PC and star commander to make copies of my old software into
> disk images. My old drive seems to be working fine. I decide to dig
> out
> my old 64c and reassemble my system. I pluged everything in and all
> was fine. I turned the whole system off and plugged in
> my old Star printer (daisy chaining it to my disk drive. The system
> hung when I turned it on so I turned the system off and unplugged my
> printer.
> When I tried again without the printer  I get a device not present
> error. I have tried
> swapping 1541 drives (I have two and both still work fine with my pc),
> also
> I swapped the 64 itself to my very old original c64 but still no luck
> (the printer
> was never connected to this 64?). Finally I swapede out  serial
> cables in case one was bad but no luck. I seem to
> remember that there were open and close commands to the devices
> but don't remember exactly. Could this be the problem? I know that
> daisy
> chaining the printer seems to have somehow effected the system but
> don't
> know what to do.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Steve Stanley

I could be completely wrong, but this sounds like a case of 'serial bus
load'....
Try to alter your power on sequence (turn on various devices first and last)
and also try to ensure you daisy chain the printer as the last physical
device in your sequence if you have more than one 1541 connected.
What printer interface are you using (if any)...

Martin Fensome