[Coco] Booting OS9 on my CoCo 3

[Dave Philipsen]

On 8/8/2017 8:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> And it needs the softer magnetically "DD" diskettes to have good data
> retention.  At this late date, there simply is no way a taped over HD
> diskette will last this long. That would explain the re-seeking as its
> trying to read a track thats faded because it wasn't recorded at enough
> record head drive.

Actually it doesn't sound like it's re-seeking.  It just sounds like it 
steps faster to a new place on the disk and then it just doesn't do 
anything.  Maybe it's the ramdisk thing although I would think that I 
would see/hear more progress of OS9 booting before it died.


>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett