[Coco] SDC's fixed; but not sure why? DANGEROUS ?

[rietveld rietveld]

I had all power off.

But the strange thing is that the two SDC'S, with the jumper set to AUTO, did work on one of my coco3s,    even though it should not be able to

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Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 11:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] SDC's fixed; but not sure why? DANGEROUS ?


I did not know that you could hotplug a COCO CARTRIDGE under any
circumstances. I know you would probably wreck the wreck the CARTRIGE
and Probably the COCO ( Especially if it had no "PROTECT" ) if
you tryed to hotplug. So what are the rules for 1. Multipacks 2. 90's or
Modern Multipack replacements?


On 2018-07-06 23:55, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> If anyone saw this video they will know that I had trouble with two
> SDC'S working on all but one of my cocos
>
>
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWLI32mXeKQ
>
> I was at a loss of ideas so I just blindly removed the jumper that
> joins the centre (yes that's how we spell it in Canada) pin to the
> Auto pin. These pins are supposed to be jumpered to allow the SDC to
> run on the coco. I removed the jumper completely and now both SDC'S
> auto start to SDCX on powerup.
>
> Strange but true

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