[Coco] Had again

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Sat Jun 22 19:13:35 EDT 2013


Come to think of it, a way to test whether a stuck Halt line is the
problem would be to tape over the halt pin temporarily on the edge
connector.  I'd expect that DSKINI might then get as far as the verify
pass before giving an IO error message and returning to the OK prompt.

Art

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Kewl, at least that's something to cause hope. I think the 6809 in the
> "trashed" Coco2 is socketed, so I may be able to swap them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of L. Curtis Boyle
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 5:41 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Had again
>
> Years ago, I had problems with a Coco 1 using a disk drive, and it was the
> 6809 in that case that caused the problem (the controller/drive itself was
> fine).
>
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