[Coco] Coco 2b problem: reboots when accessing the disk

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Tue Feb 26 00:26:03 EST 2013


I think I had something like that years ago that turned out to be due to a
flaky 6809.  You might try seeing if the problem persists when you swap
in the 6809 from your CoCo 3.

Art

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have this coco2b and when doing a DIR  with a FD500 it reboots with
> garbled screen. If the drive is not connected it returns I/O Error.
>
> This problem doesn't happen with the superIDE. I measured the voltage (with
> a multimeter) and I didn't see any voltage drop (+5v).
>
> I replaced some caps, the main ones and the problem persists. I will buy
> the other ones. What else could it be ? It was working before, it started 1
> month ago.
>
> the FD500 works fine with my coco3.
>
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