[Coco] CoCo 1 troubles

[Bill Pierce]

Clean the heads & rails with isopropyl alcohol & medical q-tips, then oil the rails with a drop of light machine oil and your errors will go away.


-----Original Message-----
From: Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: Salvador Garcia <salvadorgarciav at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, Dec 23, 2020 6:44 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo 1 troubles

 Thank you again Rick!

The cable I have is flat. No twists.

I see a bunch of chips, but none of them are 7406 or 7416. I see one 7407 in position 7.

I connected the drive to the outermost connector of the cable and the system recognized it as drive 1. I was able to start a DSKINI1, but it did not finish, producing an IO ERROR after it finished stepping 34 times. I suspect that the next step is to swap out the cable. 

Salvador