[Coco] Help with floppy disk setup - first time user

[Blake Patterson]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Robert Gault wrote:

> 
> If you plugged the disk controller into the Coco3 and the drives are connected to the controller with a ribbon cable, the drives should work. There aren't many reasons why the drives would not work under these conditions. But we will need more information.
> 
> 1) When you turn the system on with the controller connected, do you see Disk Basic rather than Extended Basic?

No.

> 2) What is the model number of the controller? That will identify whether the controller needs a 12v supply that the Coco3 does not have.

Disk Drive FD-500

> 3) When you enter a disk command, does any drive start spinning? Are there any error messages?

?SN ERROR


Thanks.


bp