[Coco] Re: Floppy drive problem need help

[Charlie]

Here is a link to some pics of the drive. Can someone see if there is a way 
to set the termination or not?
Thanks.

http://www.geocities.com/chazbeenhad/coco/drive/

-Charlie

"Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com> wrote in 
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>I am having a problem with a floppy drive I purchased from Cloud-9 a while 
>ago. It is an ALPS Electric Co.
> Model DFC222B02A. I purchased it as new old stock.
>
> The problem is that when using a Tandy FD-502 disk controller the Alps 
> drive will not DSKINI under RSDOS
> or boot Nitros9, when it is used with another drive on the system. When it 
> is used by itself it works fine.
>
> Normally this Alps drive is my drive 0 and I have an IBM XT drive (YD-580) 
> as drive 1. With a Disto SCII
> these drives work fine together. When I use a FD-502 the Alps will not 
> work as described above.
>
> I have tried different Coco 3s, different ribbon cables, I even moved the 
> Alps drive to drive 1 and it acted the
> same. Still the same problems. I have a Panasonic 360K drive. I tried it 
> with the Alps drive and had the
> same problems. When I removed the Alps drive and used the Panasonic and 
> the IBM XT drive together everything
> works fine.
>
> So to be exact, I can't use this drive in a two drive system. With all the 
> swapping and testing I am able to do it can
> be nothing other than the drive. What gets me is why it works with another 
> drive using a Disto SCII and I only have these
> problems with a FD-502 controller.
>
> The Panasonic drive belongs in my Win98 PC I use to make CoCo disks, so 
> this will leave my coco with a single drive.
> Does anyone have ideas about what the problem is or should I start looking 
> for another IBM XT YD-580 and forget about
> this Alps drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Charlie
>
>
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