[Coco] Will this Toshiba floppy drive work with CoCo?

[Oswaldo Aquique]

Thanks Arthur... That was the issue... BTW, this controller I'm using has your ADOS v1.01 😊

Cleaned the contacts with the eraser and just finished formatting the floppy...

Cheers,
Oswaldo

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Flexser
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 9:50 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Will this Toshiba floppy drive work with CoCo?

Have you tried cleaning the disk controller's edge contacts with a pencil eraser or the like to remove oxidation?  The comes-and-goes WP weirdness sounds like the sort of screwiness that might arise from dirty contacts.

Art

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:38 PM, Oswaldo Aquique <oaquique at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Recently got a TRS-80 floppy drive and, while testing it with my CoCo 
> 1, I got two situations:
>
>
>   1.  Upon inserting a brand new 3M DSDD floppy and typing DSKINIT, 
> the unit will make its normal sounds and come back with ?WP ERROR. 
> Since the floppy didn’t have any write protect tab applied, this 
> sounded a little strange.
>   2.  After a couple of attempts, ?WP ERROR went away, and now I only 
> get ?IO ERROR.
>
> Could this errors be caused by the drive itself or the floppy 
> controller (first time I’m using both, although purchased separately)?
>
> I was able to locate a Toshiba 360K floppy drive for a good price, but 
> not sure if this could be used with the CoCo. I have attached the 
> label picture in case any of you has seen this kind of unit before.
>
> Any info or pointers will be really appreciated.
>
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