[Coco] Re: Floppy drive

[Charlie]

I had a CHESS rom pak that ruined a coco2 16K and a coco3. For whatever
reason, both these machines will not work correctly with a disk controller
anymore. They still seem to work OK, but just wont access the disks
correctly.

If you think the physical drives are bad, you can get another from cloud-9
or ebay. I have a cloud9 360K drive and I love it.

Charlie

"Diego Barizo" <diegoba at adinet.com.uy> wrote in
message news:4162C27F.9050503 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???
>
> Thanks,
> Diego
>
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