[Coco] SDC Troubles

[Alex Evans]

The SDC was working minutes before and both of the SD cards are
working properly in another SDC which is jumpered exactly the same
way, I think it is is the SDC.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:50 PM Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> Don't assume that the CoCoSDC is bad until you check the current SD card contents and the settings
> on your SDC board. On my board, switches 1-4 are all OFF and the jumper on DRQ AUTO is not
> connecting either.
>
> 1) Read the contents of the SD card on a PC and check the contents of Startup.cfg.
> 2) Make sure that the disk "  0=whatever  " actually exists.
> 3) 0=SDCEXP.DSK is typical and probably contains AUTOEXEC.BAS and it is intact.
> 4) AUTOEXEC.BAS typically contains:
>    2 RUN at 6
>    10 RUN"SDCX"
> 5) SDCX sets the screen Width and does a LOADM and EXEC of SDCX.BIN
>
> Now if you hold down the shift key when turning on your CoCoSDC, then the above doesn't happen.
> Perhaps that is what you are doing before entering  DIR "/
>
> Give us more details about what you see when you turn on the CoCoSDC holding down a shift key and
> what you see when reading the SD card on your PC.
>
> Robert
>
> Alex Evans wrote:
> > My CoCoSDC seems to have quit working properly.
> > If I insert a newly formatted SD card and type 'DIR "/'
> > I get:
> >     L   16449K
> >     L   16449K
> >     L   16449K
> >     L   16449K
> >     -   0K
> > OK
> >
> > while the same command on a SD card with files gives me a corrupted listing
> >
> > This is SDC-DOS 1.6 CC3
> >
>
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