[Coco] Had again

[Retro Canada]

do you have a multimeter to test the continuity on all wires? a bad cable could cause this. also clean the contacts might help.

you can open the drive and try to push the head with your hand just to check if its not stuck with dirt or dried lub.

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On 2013-06-23, at 12:10 AM, "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> Well, all it does is turn on the light and start spinning. The stepping
> motor never kicks in, and the drive stays in total LALA land-never recovers
> and never stops.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Arthur Flexser
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 6:14 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Had again
> 
> 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.
> 
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