[Coco] Good news: my CoCo 3 is back to life!

[Mark Marlette]

BP,

As I specified...The WD controllers. There are also 3rd party  
controllers like J&M and HDS, etc. The best bet is to look at the  
controller. The J&M used a weird non WD disk controller. Don't recall  
what is was SY something. Too many designs going at the moment.

Mark

Quoting Boisy Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>:

> Gents,
>
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but FD-500 controllers will also
> work at 5v.  I think it's a very older, specific model number of disk
> controller that requires 12v and hence, the MPI.
>
> Boisy
>
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Mark Marlette wrote:
>
>>
>> He has a FD501, WD1773 controller. The WD1793 required the +12.
>>
>> You are correct.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Quoting Brian Blake <random_rodder at yahoo.com>:
>>
>>> If memory serves, anything older than an FD-501 controller will   
>>> need  to use the MPI with a CoCo3 due to the lack of 12vdc from   
>>> the  expansion port. I could be wrong about this and I'm sure   
>>> someone  will correct me if I am...
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Marcus Vinicius Garrett Chiado <marcus.chiado at gmail.com>
>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2007 8:40:04 AM
>>> Subject: [Coco] Good news: my CoCo 3 is back to life!
>>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> My friend Daniel brought my CoCo 3 back to life, he reisntalled the 512 Kb
>>> expansion board and ta-da!!!!! It works!!!!
>>>
>>> http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t191/garrettimus/coco.jpg
>>>
>>> :-D
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, he couldn´t get the disk drive to work. We do not   
>>> know if the
>>> HDB-DOS EPROM could be the problem, since DriveWire is not connected yet,
>>> only the disk drive itself. Is there any commands to load actual floppies
>>> when DriveWire is disconnected? He typed a command to load a game, but
>>> nothing happened. We haven´t been using the Multi-Pak either, just the disk
>>> drive interface/disk drive unit. Is the Multi-Pak needed because of the 12
>>> volt current?
>>>
>>> We are a little lost here, totally newbies in terms of CoCo.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> MARCUS VINICIUS GARRETT CHIADO
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