[Coco] Issues with 26-3022 interface

Daniel Campos daniel.campus at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 10:19:03 EST 2013


Well, it have run without any errors. After that I loaded again each 
BASIC program on the tested disk and all of them loaded and executed fine.

Thanks!

Daniel

Em 12/02/2013 13:03, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) escreveu:
> ops sorry:
>
> the line 10 shoud be:
>
> 10 FOR T = 0 TO 34
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> try this:
>>
>> 0 CLEAR 1000
>> 10 FOR T = 0 TO 35
>> 20 FOR S = 1 TO 18
>> 30 DSKI$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
>> 40 DSKO$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
>> 50 NEXT S
>> 60 NEXT T
>>
>> This will read every rsdos sector and rewrite it back.
>>
>> Try saving some basic program on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Em 12/02/2013 11:56, Mark Marlette escreveu:
>>>
>>>> Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> This HD mod was created by Robert Brose of our computer club many years
>>>> ago.
>>>>
>>>> I have done this mod, it works. I also added a line from the controller
>>>> to the drive to automatically switch the transfer rate clock based upon the
>>>> sensors in the drive rather than just the descriptor.
>>>>
>>>> With that said...this is NO easy mod. Almost easier making a new
>>>> controller.
>>>>
>>> Yes, for what I saw from the document that Harry sent, it will be no easy
>>> task.
>>>
>>>
>>>> It requires a the MB8877A(??) memory loss ATM upgrade and then there was
>>>> also a speed issue running at 1.78MHZ as well. A chip that needed
>>>> replacing. Was pinged this past weekend on this at Cloud-9 and haven't had
>>>> the chance to look up my work in my project documentation book. I have it.
>>>>
>>>> The file was up on RTSI for a long time. ????
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>> http://www.cloud9tech.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ou of curiosity, I just attached today a 3 1/2 1.44M drive to the Coco
>>> and it worked flawlessly! It formated the disk (a HD disk with the role
>>> closed to make the drive understand it as 720Kb disk) and SAVEd and LOADed
>>> some programs. No errors ocurred during the format process!
>>> How can I check the disk to see if it was formated properly ?
>>>
>>> This drive is a Mitsumi D359M3D and was already configured to DS0,
>>> because I used it before with one of my MSX machines.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>
>




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