[Coco] CoCo 1 troubles

[Arthur Flexser]

All drive motors turn on when any drive is selected, so that doesn't
indicate drive selection is working properly.  The lack of the drive's
light coming on suggests drive select is NOT working.

Art

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 9:32 PM Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

>  Update:
>
> I had the cable on backwards (ugh). I thought pin 1 on the floppy drive
> was towards the top. The notch is towards the bottom and it turns out that
> pin 1 is close to the notch.
>
> I reversed the cable and tried again. The strange RF interference is gone,
> the screen remains steady as the drive is accessed. The drive select is
> working because I can see the motor spin; however, the LED does not light
> up.
>
> Hopefully, I did not damage the unit when I reversed the cable.
>
> Salvador
>
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