[Coco] ORC 90 ERR 7

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:49:07 -0500
coco at jechar.ca wrote:

> No the disk is NOT write protected.
> I can mount it "BLANK.DSK" on the SDC then
> 
> DISK 0,"BLANK.DSK"
> DRIVE 0
> NEW
> 10 ? "TEST"
> SAVE "TEST.BAS"
> 
> Then I turn off the coco and after I start it up the
> file "TEST.BAS" is there on "BLANK.DSK" and it runs correctly.
> 
> So definitely not write protected.
> 
> Any other Ideas is there anything wrong with DOS 1.6 I have the
> option of installing DOS 1.4 instead but am nerviness about doing
> that.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> On 2021-12-20 15:57, michaelkline704 wrote:
> > Charlie, Double check that the disk in not write protected. Either
> > by saving a small file to disk from DECB, or placing your SD card
> > into your computer and look at properties to verify that the write
> > protection is not set. For grins, you can also see if you can format
> > the mounted disk from your CoCo. If there's nothing on it
> > already. Michael Sent from my Galaxy
> > -------- Original message --------From: coco at jechar.ca Date:
> > 12/20/21 14:07  (GMT-06:00) To: Coco List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Subject: [Coco] ORC 90   ERR 7 Cannot get anything saved from my
> > ORC-90 to disk have tried bothmy CoCoSDC which runs version DOS 1.6
> > and my SuperIDE interface which runs "DISK EXTENDED COLOR BASIC 2.1
> > / HDB-DOS 1.1D LBA"I also have a floppy controller and floppy
> > drives but for the pastfive years I have only bin able to read
> > floppys writing fails foreverything not just ORC-90.In every case I
> > get ERR 7 which the ORC-90 manual says is a i/oERROR.Do I need to
> > change a switch on the "Multipack" before saving?Failing this is it
> > possible to set up a raspberry pi to emulatea coco tape player it
> > seems that the default is to save to tapebut I don't have a coco
> > tape player.Charlie.-- Coco mailing
> > listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
> 

    Looking at the Orch 90 Manual (from the archive):
Do you get an error after the "D :0" command to set to disk access (and
see any music files on the disk)??

The manual says that the Disk Controller MUST be plugged into slot 4.
According to Zippster's web-site there is a switch to set the 'number'
of the second slot. Is it set to 4?


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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