[Coco] Another problem

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Thu Jul 16 23:37:10 EDT 2015


Curtis, I don't know that there ARE any commercial CoCo disks that are
3-1/2".

Art

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:35 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:

> Could be head alignment, or drive speeds are off. Does it sporadically
> read, or always fail? If you have the original OS9 boot disks (in Level 2’s
> case, I think the BASIC09 disk), there is a disk speed test program on it
> that you can try. You may have to “hybrid” a drive from each set onto the
> same controller to load it, though. Or does it read commercial Coco disks
> fine, just not each others?
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
> > On Jul 16, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's what I thought, but if there were a head alignment problem, would
> drive 0 be able to read drive 1 or vice versa?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Michael
> Graham
> > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 5:55 PM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Another problem
> >
> > Sounds like a head alignment problem, to me.
> >
> >
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