[Coco] Hard Drive Problems

[Mark Marlette]

At 10:54 PM 6/14/2004 -0600, you wrote:

Fred,

That is GREAT news! No what caused the problem.... I have the Speech/Sound 
pak down for an address of $FF7D-$FF7E. That should case NO problems with 
the TC^3 and it's RTC. Do you have a Disto SC-II as a floppy controller?

Might be a dirty contact(s) on the card edge contacts of the paks and/or 
the multipak. Use a white eraser and rub them, they will look new instead 
of a dull color. The TC^3 should be fine...it is gold, but check to see if 
they are black from the tin connector. Why Tandy did that... I know 
why.....Gold is more $$$ than tin and also less reliable.... :(

As far as your Win Box....can't help you there.......Mine seem to work fine.

Well off to see for a few hours....Have logged over 40hrs the past 3 days 
on the CoCo looking at traces and CPLD equations.....That doesn't count 
that I went to work today!

Your welcome..... :)

Mark


>On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:14:49 -0500 Mark Marlette <mmarlett at isd.net>
>writes:
>
> > Do you recall what you did, if anything, when the hard drive stopped
> > working?
> >
> > SCSI termination is proper? Any added devices?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark
>
>Now that you mention it, I did plug my Speech/Sound Cartridge into slot 3
>of my Multi-Pak around the time that the NitrOS partition on my hard
>drive failed. It might have been just a coincidence, but I decided to
>test out the theory anyway.
>
>So just a few minutes ago I took the Speech/Sound Cartridge out of the
>Multi-Pak, and then turned the Coco system on:
>
>NitrOS-9 booted from the hard drive! Everything worked perfectly! The
>problem disappeared!
>
>I was curious if the presence of the Speech/Sound Cartridge in the
>Multi-Pak was really to blame, so I shut the system down again,
>re-inserted the Speech-Sound Cartridge, and turned the system back on
>again. Again, the system booted from the hard drive flawlessly!
>
>I don't know what happened or what was wrong, but somehow the problem
>went away. Everything seems to be working fine again. I hope it stays
>that way. We'll see. If the problem pops up again, I'll let you know.
>Thank you so much for all your help.
>
>Now, if I can only get the downloaded NitrOS-9 boot disks to work...
>
>That's still a problem.
>
>Fred Provoncha
>
>--
>Coco mailing list
>Coco at maltedmedia.com
>http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco