roccella@pilot.njin.net (Matthew Roccella) (01/03/91)
Hello, I am trying to add a 1.2 Meg 5.25" disk drive to my COCO3. But I keep running into trouble. I made up a new drive cable, cut all the traces from my /D0 drive, accept the one that designates the drive as /d0, and I made a new OS-9 boot disk with the d1_80dd descripter. My trouble is that the system keeps giving me CRC errors and BAD SYSTEM TRACK errors. I cannot read, write, or format any disks in this new drive at all. My /d0 drive works fine. Doesn't the COCO3 take standard IBM type off disk drives? What kind of drive is compatible with the COCO3 and where can I get one at a good price? If anyone has added a disk drive to their COCO, please let me know what you did and how things have turned out. I'm racking my head as what to do next! Thank you, Matthew Roccella