[Coco] Help with floppy disk setup - first time user

[Mark McDougall]

On 2/02/2012 10:09 AM, Blake Patterson wrote:

> Did something blow? I did not insert or remove carts while power was
> on. I may have unplugged / replugged drives into the FD-500 while
> power was on. Did I kill it? Can that really be the deal here?

I'm not familiar with the FD-500 circuit, but I'd guess it's highly 
unlikely that plugging in drives whilst powered-on would cause a problem 
on the Coco itself!?! The data cable only carriers power for the IDE 
interface circuitry I/O, not the drive/mechanism itself.

I also don't have access to my retro archives atm so I can't even look 
at the schematic to see how the keyboard is connected to the CPU. I'm 
sure others on this list can offer suggestions.

Regards,

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