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

[Blake Patterson]

Well, it's a pretty sad blow after an awesome "first day" with the
CoCo 3. :-\\\\





bp

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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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