[Coco] DSKINI sounds

[Bill Pierce]

Before doing anything else, clean all contacts with a pencil eraser. Then clean the drive heads with alcohol and a qtip (very gently & carefully). Let the heads dry for a time as the alcohol will eat your disk if there's any on the head, especdially old disks and I don't think there's many "new" ones around. If this doesn't work, then start trouble shooting the drive/controller.

Bill P

Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Roper <ebonhand09 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 10:01 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] DSKINI sounds


I get at most 1 or 2 slow long clicks/grinds and then just running sounds..

The FD-500 cart seems very unreliable, booting into DECB only one or
two out of three attempts, both with and without the modified MPI

I'm thinking it's dead, Jim - just not sure which bit

Any suggestions on how I can diagnose which part is toast?

- David

On 16 October 2012 00:58, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> yep, 35 slow long clicks, then 35 short fast clicks. (IIRC) and that's after 
the initial chatter of the head banging to LSN0
>
> Bill P
>
> Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Roper <ebonhand09 at gmail.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 9:52 am
> Subject: [Coco] DSKINI sounds
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a traditional pattern to the sounds a drive makes while
> running DSKINI on a coco?
>
> I've got a Coco3 ->modified MPI->FD-500 controller->FD-500 dual disk
> setup that has worked in the past, but now its failing somewhere along
> the line, and I'm not sure where
>
> - David
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