Re: help with disk drive in P/E Box

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: well I know the problem is not the P/E box because : I recently attached a printer thru the p/e box : and 232 card and got it to work just fine, so that narrows it down : to the disk drive, controller card, or the disks themselves. : My first guess is the drive itself, because the : drive spins but the red led does NOT light up : now, But after what Marc said about his experience : with 9 out of 10 disks not working mabye it is : all 5 disks because who knows how old they are. I : recently ordered a new p/e box with a disk drive, : one extra disk drive, and : ome extra TI diks on e-bay, so I will use these to : continue troubleshooting and let you all know what : I find. Thanks : Rich M. : : : now i'm able to read some disks someone told me to check for the manual of the corcomp floppy controler : : and i can tell you something if you try to acces a disk drive with old or save and the light goes on and off before it tell you the error it seems that you drive or your controler is not defective maybe the diskette is the problem sometime they are old but i was able now to retreive some files programs that are working, the option of the disk manager I have when i turn on the computer need the disk from corcomp thats why i hear a beep after 10 second. : : 9 out of 10 of my disk where defective i'm waiting to receive the disk manager II cartrige to format disks and doing disk operation but i'd like to find someone can sell me a copy of the diskette from corcomp : : : : : : : 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.) : : : Marc, : : : Thanks for your help with the error codes. The 16 and 56 code suggests there is probably something wrong with one of my devices, but which one? Hopefully someone on the list can help us both. Ill let you know if I figure anything out myself. Thanks again. : : : Rich Moelleriing

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