[Coco] Re: Re: FD-502 controller problem

[George's Coco Address]

A small, squeaky little voice in the back of my mind is telling me...

"Make sure there is only one terminating resistor pak. It goes in the second 
drive only"
Otherwise, try removing the second drive, make sure the resistor pak is in 
drive 0 and try again.

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: [Coco] Re: Re: FD-502 controller problem


> Would the length of the cable to the drives matter? I do have a very long
> cable. Like I said before, with the Disto SCII
> There is never a problem. Its just that with no multipak the Disto sticks
> out way too far from the side of the CoCo3.
> The person who gave me the 502 controller seems to remember it having this
> trouble with his coco system as well.
>
>> But wouldn't a bad drive select affect reading too ? I thought Charlie
>> said that it would load games and stuff ok.
>>
>> Phill.
>
> Well I ran the official Radio Shack CoCo3 Demo for hours and hours using 
> the
> 502 controller with no troubles.
> That demo loads from disk between every scene. Come to think of it. After 
> I
> reset the coco after running the demo
> for a long time it did DSKINI 0 once just fine. Then it failed again
> everytime after.
>
> -Charlie