[Coco] Frustrated in Seattle

[theother_bob]

Are you covering both sides of the hole (top & bottom)?

When I first tried doing this, I covered the hole in the top side of the disk with electrical tape, assuming it would work. Turns out my drive had a pin that stuck up from the bottom, so my tape was useless. So I put the tape on both sides and the disk worked.

After a while I sterted getting errors and noticed that the tape was sinking into the hole due to the tiny but constant pressure from the switch. So if I must block a hole now, I fill it with a drop of hot-melt glue (keeping that corner down so it can't drip onto the media) and then cover the glued hole with tape to block optical sensors.

Bob


----- Original Message ----
From: Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com>
To: "Coco Group @ Maltedmedia.com" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:43:26 PM
Subject: [Coco] Frustrated in Seattle

Here is more information that was requested by folk trying to help me.

(1) Dmode Output
  nam=d1
  mgr=RBF
  ddr=rb1773
  hpn=07
  hpa=FF40
  drv=01
  stp=03
  typ=21
  dns=01
  cyl=50
  sid=02
  vfy=01
  sct=0012
  t0s=0012
  ilv=03
  sas=08
  wpc=
  ofs=
  rwc=

(2) Terminating resistors
Drive /d0 (the 5.25 drive) is at the physical end of the interface 
cable. There is a terminating resistor on this drive
Drive /d1 (the 3.25 drive) is not at the physical end of the interface 
cable. There is a terminating resistor on this drive also
It is not possible to make /d0 the 3.25, since I need to boot NitrOS9 
from floppy, but I could explore booting from DriveWire assuming 
DriveWire allows using it's floppy drive as drive 1

(3) RS-DOS
When using RS-DOS and executing a DIR 0, only the drive 0 (5.25) light 
turns on, When using RS-DOS and executing a DIR 1, only the drive 1 
(3.25) light turns on.

Based upon what the responses so far have been, the hardware and drivers 
are correct. I know the drives are physically fine, so that only leaves 
the media. I probably need to use 720kb media in the drive, and not 
"cover the sensor hole" on HD media to make the drive think it is a 
720kb disk.

Comments????


Thanks.
Ed


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