[Coco] Floppy drive

[Diego Barizo]

I'm using real 720 Kb disks.
I tested it with a CoCo 2 and a CoCo 3. A DIR 1 gives me a line of 
graphic chars and a FS ERROR, (I guess that's expected) and a DSKINI 1 a 
WP ERROR, before it seems to do any real formating.
After any of these, the floppy light stays on, and any command returns a 
IO ERROR.
...
I just tried with another drive, and the format starts, but after a 
noisy while, I get an IO ERROR.
Then I re-tried the 5 1/4, with a brand new floppy. The same IO ERROR 
after DSKINI 0
The same with all the other 5 1/4 drives I tried (some of them work as 
disk 1, not 0, that's why I probably thought that some were bad)
So, to make it short, IO ERRORs all the time.

I'm gonna keep trying anyway I guess....

Thanks
Diego



>I don't know... the controller *seems* to be doing it's job,
>controlling the drive. Did the format even start?
>Normally BASIC formats all 35 tracks and then goes back
>to check them before reporting an error. Is that what
>happened? Can you find a real 720K disk to try?
>
>Speaking of the disk... did you tape the HD hole, and
>if so, top or bottom? The switch is usually on the *bottom*.
>
>Hang in there Diego, you'll get it!
>
>Bob
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
>http://mail.yahoo.com 
>
>  
>