[Coco] Coco 2b problem: reboots when accessing the disk

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 00:32:41 EST 2013


they are not socketed :(

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On 2013-02-26, at 12:26 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> I think I had something like that years ago that turned out to be due to a
> flaky 6809.  You might try seeing if the problem persists when you swap
> in the 6809 from your CoCo 3.
> 
> Art
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have this coco2b and when doing a DIR  with a FD500 it reboots with
>> garbled screen. If the drive is not connected it returns I/O Error.
>> 
>> This problem doesn't happen with the superIDE. I measured the voltage (with
>> a multimeter) and I didn't see any voltage drop (+5v).
>> 
>> I replaced some caps, the main ones and the problem persists. I will buy
>> the other ones. What else could it be ? It was working before, it started 1
>> month ago.
>> 
>> the FD500 works fine with my coco3.
>> 
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