[Coco] ORC 90 ERR 7

[coco at jechar.ca]

Cleaned controller contacts with DeoxIT writing working well now.
Will try out with ORC90 after Christmass.

On 2021-12-22 05:24, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> The Orchestra90 pak does NOT use any form or part of Disk Basic. The
> Orch90 ROM has it's own DOS to do all of it's disk I/O. The MPI should
> be set for the slot the Orch90 pak is in and the disk controller in
> slot 4 (last slot). And if I'm not mistaken, an Orch90 disk must be
> formatted from DECB, but not used for anything else as Orch90 does not
> use the DECB file structure and sets up it's own directories and file
> system. The filenames will not have extensions. Oddly, DECB can read
> Orch90 disks and Orch90 can read DECB disks, but they don't play well
> together when mixing files on a single disk (IIRC). I may be wrong on
> this, but I don't think so.
> I'm not sure it will work with the CocoSDC (never had one to try).
> Since the Orch90 DOS access the controller directly, it must be 100%
> compatible with a disk controller.
> 
> If you're having problems writing to disks under all DOS's, then I
> would thing there's a problem in the controller. Have you tried
> another controller?
> 
> Bill P.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco at jechar.ca
> To: Coco List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Dec 20, 2021 3:07 pm
> Subject: [Coco] ORC 90 ERR 7
> 
> 
> Cannot get anything saved from my ORC-90 to disk have tried both
> my CoCoSDC which runs version DOS 1.6 and my SuperIDE interface which
> runs "DISK EXTENDED COLOR BASIC 2.1 / HDB-DOS 1.1D LBA"
> 
> I also have a floppy controller and floppy drives but for the past
> five years I have only bin able to read floppys writing fails for
> everything not just ORC-90.
> 
> In every case I get ERR 7 which the ORC-90 manual says is a i/o
> ERROR.
> 
> Do I need to change a switch on the "Multipack" before saving?
> 
> Failing this is it possible to set up a raspberry pi to emulate
> a coco tape player it seems that the default is to save to tape
> but I don't have a coco tape player.
> 
> Charlie.
> 
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