[Coco] Can't copy real floppy to CoCo-SDC on a CoCo 2

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Feb 27 14:45:58 EST 2015



On Friday 27 February 2015 14:15:06 mike at borncoco.com wrote:
> This issue is a floppy drive issue as I've removed the CoCo-SDC and
> replicated the same issue with real floppies. I changed disk controllers
> just to eliminate that as an issue. I reinstalled drive 1. It has no
> terminator and the DS jumper is set to D1. Same symptoms. I can read &
> write to each drive individually without issue, but the "BACKUP" command
> between the two drives (D0 & D1) fails with an "?IO ERROR". Ideas?
>
How do the drives activity led's behave? is there any time in the attempt 
where both are on at the same time?  In which case I would verify that both 
drives are indeed jumpered to be drive 1's only.

> Thanks,
> -Mike Rowen

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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