[Coco] Help with my CoCo FDD

Walter Zambotti zambotti at iinet.net.au
Mon Nov 19 01:21:36 EST 2018


>This has the quack and waddle of two ducks, both wanting to be first, drive 0.  >From prior experience the first thing I'd do is look into the edge connector pulled >off either or both drives. Missing teeth? then both drives need a jumper on 0 (1) >2 3 MX Term
>                             0 (1) 2 3 MX Term because the twist in the cable makes the 2nd >& last drive into drive 0, and in any event you'll need a jumper on Term for last >drive on the end of cable.

Thanks Gene

I should have said I have backed off from trying to get both drives working together and all my testing was just with 1 drive at a time.

So if I only have 1 drive connected then I should just need a jumper on 0 & Term!

However one of the drives only spins up when I jumper MX even when it's the only drive!  I'll check the edge connector.

I'm going to get my Tandy ctrl and drive out of storage and test that.

That should at least prove the CoCo is not the problem.

Walter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene
> Heskett Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2018 1:11 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Help with my CoCo FDD
>
> On Monday 12 November 2018 23:32:03 Walter Zambotti wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> >
> >
> > Advance help request.
> >
> >
> >
> > I was cleaning up my FDD and a jumper fell out (from I don't know
> > where!) And there are numerous jumpers on the FDD and I don't know
> > where to put it back.
> >
> >
> >
> > After that I can't read any of my FDs!
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm going to take a few pics of the thing and post them online in
> > the hope one of you guys might be able to help!
> >
> >
> >
> > Walter
>
> Panasonic did at one time have that stuff on the web as .pdf's. But
> that was 20 years back too. I have an earlier factory manual on the
> JU-455, but its not that new so the pcb is probably different. But set
> that one on your scanner glass, and send me a PM as a  multimegabyte
> jpeg, with the scanner running at at least 600 dpi, so I can compare
> it with what I have. Send it to me, not the list as it will be huge.
>
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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