[Coco] DSKINI glitch while using physical drive 1 and SDC DOS 1.5

[Arthur Flexser]

Rietveld, you can check if the interrupts being off is the problem by
printing out the value of the TIMER function a few times.  If it isn't
changing, that's the problem.  Try a POKE&HFF03,&H35 (from memory, hope
that's right) and see if the disk motor shuts off and the TIMER function
starts working again.

In any case, you can "manually" shut off the disk motor with POKE&HFF40,0.

Art

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Rietveld Rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> So far I have just waited until the head stop stepping. That way I know
> the formatting is complete. But motor stays on even after stepping is
> done.   A reset and DIR1 confirms a successful DISINI format
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
>   Original Message
> From: Darren A
> Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2017 1:13 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DSKINI glitch while using physical drive 1 and SDC DOS
> 1.5
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Rietveld Rietveld wrote:
>
> > Just 'hangs'. No 'ok' prompt until I do a reset
> >
> >
> But can you hear the drive head stepping occasionally?
> Try setting the appropriate High-Speed poke for your CoCo before doing the
> DSKINI and see if that makes a difference.
>
> High-Speed poke for CoCo 1 or 2:
>   POKE  65495,0
>
> High-Speed poke for CoCo 3:
>   POKE  65497,0
>
>
> - Darren
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