Re: help with disk drive in P/E Box

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: : Hello All! : : I recently purchased a P/E box on e-bay with a single : : drive and disk controller for my recently acqired : : ti-99/4a AND ti-99/4 consoles (yes 99/4!) but could : : not get any floppy disks to run on either consoles, : : even ti program (phdxxxx) disks. All I get is an load : : error code 16 (sometimes 56 or 57) message and I dont : : know what this means since I dont have any documentation : : other than the TI disk manuals which I followed very : : carefully. Assuming the disks are ok (I thik its : : unlikely that all 5 of my TI program disks would be bad) : : I am wondering if the problem is in the disk drive, : : disk controller card, P/E box or mabye even the flex : : cable. BTW the disk drive and controller card both : : light up when the run command is issued and the drive : : does spin at which point I get an error mesage which : : I dont know the code for. Any help would be appreciated : : Thanks! Rich Moellering : : rmoellering@hotmail.com : : : : : well i have a Corcomp floppy disk controler : and i have the same problem : i can tell you the error code but not the solution : : I/O error - this condition genarate an accompanying error code as follow : When an I/O Error occur , a two-digit error code(xy) is displayed with the message: : *I/O ERROR xy : The first digit (x) indicate which I/O operation caused the error. : 0-open : 1-close : 2-input : 3-print : 4-restore : 5-old : 6-save : 7-delete : the second value (y) indicate what kind of error occured : 0-Device name not found(Invalid device or file name in DELETE,LIST,OLD,SAVE command) : 1-Device write protected(attempting to write to a protected file) : 2-Bad open Attribute(one or more OPEN option are illegal or do not match file caracteristics) : 3-Illegal operation(Input/output command not valid) : 4-Out of space(attempting to write when insufficient space remains on the storage medium) : 5-End of file(attempting to read past the end of a file) : 6-Device error(device not connected,or is damaged. this error can occur during file processing if an accessory device is accidentally disconnected while the program is running) : 7-File error(the indicated file does not exist or the file type;program file or data file does not match the acces mode.)

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