Re: [M100] I/O error with disk drive

2018-08-24 Thread John R. Hogerhuis
Glad you got it working! And welcome to the list. Btw please remember to trim emails to minimum necessary. Sometimes the digest and quoted chains can be really long. Cheers, John. -= Model T's Forever =-

[M100] I/O error with disk drive

2018-08-24 Thread Jesus R
ge Digital Storage Box (NADSBox) > Message-ID: > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > That's what I would say if using an sbc (pi) instead of a microcontroller > (arduino). > But even these microcontrollers are more powerful cpus and have more ram > than the host m

Re: [M100] I/O error with disk drive

2018-08-24 Thread Brian White
This happens during what operation? Bootstrapping from the utility disk? Do you know the disk is good? Does teeny or ts-dos work instead of whatever unknown BASIC program that line number 10 came from? Is the serial cable the original one ? (The cable has electronics inside, so if you don't have

Re: [M100] I/O error with disk drive

2018-08-24 Thread Fugu ME100
switches are set correctly for boot. From: M100 mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com>> on behalf of Jesus R mailto:sonor...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: mailto:m...@bitchin100.com>> Date: Friday, August 24, 2018 at 3:59 AM To: mailto:m100@lists.bitchin100.com>> Subject: [M

[M100] I/O error with disk drive

2018-08-24 Thread Jesus R
Team, after placing a new belt on the Tandy portable disk drive I still get an error when trying to initialize it: ?ao error in 10 trs 80 It sits there and looks dead and is silent. I'll check the out of the power board next.

[M100] I/O error with disk drive

2018-08-21 Thread Jesus R
Kurt, you were right. Funny thing is I had it apart yesterday and even after spinning the large pulley it looked like the belt was okay. Turns out it was denigrated and what was left was tar in its place...what a mess to clean it. I'll check out the link you provided next. Thanks, JR On Tue,