[Coco] Help with my CoCo FDD

[Walter Zambotti]

Thanks for all the FD info guys.

I think I confused everyone!

The Panasonic FD is not the broken FD.  It's one I want to buy for my PC so I can test 
(O)VCC.

I just want some feedback as to that particular FD being adequate for that specific purpose.

I.E:  Can I use just any 5.1/4" FD for reading/writing CoCo floppies via a PC.

I thought that one (Panasonic JU-455-5 AAG) looked good because it is a true 360K FD.

Of course if physical FD support is no longer needed in VCC then I don't need to by it at all.

The other option is if I find a working FD for my CoCo system can I just unplug it from the CoCo
And plug it into a PC with an FD controller and expect it to work?

For an update on the other topic (my broken FD) see another email!!! :)

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 1:11 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with my CoCo FDD

On Monday 12 November 2018 23:32:03 Walter Zambotti wrote:

> Hi guys
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> Advance help request.
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> I was cleaning up my FDD and a jumper fell out (from I don't know
> where!) And there are numerous jumpers on the FDD and I don't know 
> where to put it back.
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> After that I can't read any of my FDs!
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> I'm going to take a few pics of the thing and post them online in the 
> hope one of you guys might be able to help!
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> Walter

Panasonic did at one time have that stuff on the web as .pdf's. But that was 20 years back too. I have an earlier factory manual on the JU-455, but its not that new so the pcb is probably different. But set that one on your scanner glass, and send me a PM as a  multimegabyte jpeg, with the scanner running at at least 600 dpi, so I can compare it with what I have. Send it to me, not the list as it will be huge.

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