[Coco] Re: FD-205 2nd drive bug ??

[Charlie]

Thanks for the reply.

I opened the drive case and checked. When I do a dir to either drive they
both spin, so I guess I'm good and have nothing to worry about.
I like the PC 360K drive a whole lot more than the fd-502 drive only because
the PC drive makes some noise. The fd-502 drive is so quiet it is hard to
tell if it is doing anything sometimes!
Thanks!

Charlie

"Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote in
message news:200408160858.i7G8whDD002402 at virgo.sdc.org...
> >From: "Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com>
> >Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:27:13 -0400
>
>
> >A while ago, I found a document that said if you had a 2nd  fd-502 drive
> >there was some sort of bug and jumpers needed to be moved on the 2nd
drive
> >for more reliability. For the life of me I can't find this documant
anywhere
> >now!
>
> Ahh, yes.  I remember this one, because it worried me.
>
> The problem was that the Tandy 2nd drive upgrade was set up
> incorrectly, in that only the currently selected drive (say, one
> you're reading a file off of) is spinning.  DECB and OS-9 assume that
> if one drive is spinning, they all are.
>
> So, if you were copying a file, for instance, it would read off the
> first drive, then select the second one and *immediately* start
> writing, without waiting for it to spin up.  Boom, crashed disk.
>
> To see if you have the problem, stick disks in both drives.  "DIR" one
> and then the other.  If both spin on both reads, you're fine.
>
> I also put a PC 360K drive in my fd-502 box and didn't have this
> problem.
>
> If you do have this problem... Ask about jumper settings.  It'll
> depend on the make/model of your drives.
>
> Willard
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