[Coco] Unusual problem

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 11:48:55 EDT 2013


According to him even floppy disk won't work.


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you using the same cable?
> On Nov 1, 2013 10:18 AM, "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an unusual problem. I have a Coco 3 that acts very strangely.
> >
> > When hooked to my PC (running XP SP3) in the shed, it works great.
> >
> > It will read DriveWire 4 without a hitch, and it will run BOTH RS-DOS and
> > NitrOS-9 disks beautifully. I save a NitrOS-9 image to a physical disc,
> and
> > it boots with no problem.
> >
> > HOWEVER, when I bring it into the house and hook it up to my PC in the
> > office (also running XP SP3), it will not run ANY NitrOS-9 images from
> > DriveWire. I load a standard 40tk NitrOS-9 image into Drive 0, type DOS,
> > and
> > all it does is come back with 'OK'.
> >
> > Both computers have identical dual serial port cards in them with
> identical
> > drivers. They are even running on the same ports (Com6).
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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