[Coco] Floppy weirdness

[Mike Rowen]

David,

Which controller are you using? Your first step will be to make sure the contacts are clean on the controller. When I've run into goofy disk behavior, it has almost always been issues with contacts on the cartridge port. I have an FD-501 that is particularly iffy.

-Mike

On Apr 16, 2012, at 5:16 AM, David Roper <ebonhand09 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I've finally found space to hook my coco stuff back up
> 
> I'm trying to format some disks using DSKINI, however I think
> something is going haywire somewhere
> 
> After issuing the command DSKINI 0 (or 1, same results either way) I
> get the first drive access/seek/grind tone, and then nothing audible
> except for the sound of the disk spinning. I've left it for a good 10
> minutes and nothing appears to be happening
> 
> If I use DIR on any of my disks, I get the usual group of 3 or 4
> access/seek/grind tones, but DSKINI only throws the one, and then
> hangs
> 
> Any ideas on how I can further diagnose what's wrong, so I can get up
> and running again?
> 
> - David
> 
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