[Coco] Floppy drive

[Neil Morrison]

Could be the computer. It's not unknown for them to get zapped via the
ROMPAK port.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diego Barizo" <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>


> I recently bought on e-bay 2 drives for the CoCo.
> 1 is a FD-501, the other a 502
> But the luck that kept me without a floppy for the last 20 years is
> still there.
> None of them works
> With the 502 controller, the disks won't even spin after a DIR command.
> With the 501 I always get an IO ERROR.
> I tried with different drives and cables, including a drive that, when
> hooked to my PC, reads the floppies without any problem.
> I've also tested them in a CoCo2 and in a 3.
> Can anybody give me some hope???