[Coco] STATUS - Re: Resurrecting a CoCo (26-3001) with a 26-3029 FDC.

[Ryan Pritchard]

Four.  including two brand new.

Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies



On 12-Sep-08, at 9:20 PM, J.P. Samson wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Ryan Pritchard wrote:
>> I mean that the cable is on correct, the drive light and motor turn  
>> on after I press ENTER when entering DSKINI0 to format the  
>> diskette.  The drive proceeds to spin the disk and move the head  
>> for about 35 track adjustments then makes a normal type of I am not  
>> going to complete my job grind noise, and then I get the ?IO ERROR  
>> message.
>
> How many different drive cables have you tried?
>
> Unfortunately, the best way to track down which component is the  
> problem is to have multiples of everything (e.g. disk controllers,  
> drive cables, floppy drives, CoCo's).
>
> -- JP
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