[Coco] Will this Toshiba floppy drive work with CoCo?

[Arthur Flexser]

Have you tried cleaning the disk controller's edge contacts with a pencil
eraser or the like to remove oxidation?  The comes-and-goes WP weirdness
sounds like the sort of screwiness that might arise from dirty contacts.

Art

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:38 PM, Oswaldo Aquique <oaquique at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Recently got a TRS-80 floppy drive and, while testing it with my CoCo 1, I
> got two situations:
>
>
>   1.  Upon inserting a brand new 3M DSDD floppy and typing DSKINIT, the
> unit will make its normal sounds and come back with ?WP ERROR. Since the
> floppy didn’t have any write protect tab applied, this sounded a little
> strange.
>   2.  After a couple of attempts, ?WP ERROR went away, and now I only get
> ?IO ERROR.
>
> Could this errors be caused by the drive itself or the floppy controller
> (first time I’m using both, although purchased separately)?
>
> I was able to locate a Toshiba 360K floppy drive for a good price, but not
> sure if this could be used with the CoCo. I have attached the label picture
> in case any of you has seen this kind of unit before.
>
> Any info or pointers will be really appreciated.
>
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