From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 11:54:46 PM UTC-4, Pekka Takala wrote:   
   > The XM1541 cable is just a serial cable, but it attaches into parallel   
   > port of the machine. There is four schottky diodes inside, and xm cable   
   > is meant to support multitask. It works fine with SC, but not with   
   > 64HDD. It will work fine under cbm4linux or opencbm.   
   >   
   I'm not totally sure what cable I have, but I got it from the maker of 64hdd.   
      
   > Also 64hdd does not support XM cable. It must be XE cable, that is same   
   > as XM but two wires exchanged.   
   >   
      
   > 64HDD uses number 8 normally. If there is a cbm device with number 8 on   
   > line, they will mix each other and wont of course work. So change the   
   > 64hdd to device 9 and so on if you want to use standard 1541 on line.   
   >   
   I'm using device 9 for the connection.   
      
   > If you want to use SC with the 1541, DISCONNECT the c64 from line. If   
   > connected it will not work.   
      
   Is turning off the C64C good enough?   
      
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