[Coco] CocoSDC first time startup

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Sun Feb 1 17:18:22 EST 2015


On Sunday 01 February 2015 16:53:41 Nick Marentes did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 2/02/2015 7:24 AM, Bob Devries wrote:
> > On 2/02/2015 6:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings;
> >> 
> >> I had to do some laundry that took me to the basement, so I plugged
> >> in the
> >> monitor, powered down the whole setup and plugged the SDC in for the
> >> first
> >> time.  Into slot one of the coco3 modified MPI. On a coco3.
> >> 
> >> Switch set for slot 4, the FD Controller, TC^3 is in slot 3, deluxe
> >> rs232
> >> pack in slot 2
> >> 
> >> Unfortunately, a plain green screen is all I can get on powerup. So
> >> I am assuming there is a magic potion or incantation to bring it
> >> up, but I am not conversant with it.  If the 2G SD is not plugged
> >> in, the LED will go out when the button is pushed, but if the SD
> >> card is inserted, no led.
> >> 
> >> Power it back down, remove the cocosdc, power it back up and it
> >> boots right up as soon as the HD's get spun up.
> >> 
> >> What else do I need to know?
> 
> Is the SD card formatted?

Not that I know of.  Unplugged it still doesn't sign on.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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