[Coco] Chinon floppy drive and coco3

[Richard E Crislip]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:53:45 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 23 February 2014 00:48:58 Arthur Flexser did opine:
> 
> > Gene, I believe the index hole is used by the CoCo only for
> > formatting. So if that's the problem, it should be readily
> > identifiable by the drive's working okay for reading and writing to
> > existing CoCo disks, but giving an error when it gets to the verify
> > stage of formatting.
> > 
> > Art
> > 
> You are spot on there Art.  I once had a drive with a doofy indexer,
> and had to move it about 5 degrees CCW to make it work.  The casting
> was in the way but I'm pretty good with a dremel, so I won that
> argument.  I checked with several brands of disks first though, and
> it simply did not align with the index hole in the sleeve.  Like
> Captain Kirk, I "made it so". :)  Its amazing what gets thru QC.
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Sorry, but that was Capt. Piquard's line 8-).