6000HD floppy error

[mloewen]

I've looked through a bunch of 6000 and Xenix docs, and can't find this error. What does hard error BE10 indicate while trying to read a diskette? OS is Xenix 3.2.

I suspect an alignment problem with this drive. It will format, read and write perfectly, but has problems reading disks written on other drives.

 

[pski]

A hard error is thrown by z80ctl when it encounters an unrecoverable error when interacting with a disk. I think your suspicions are dead-on regarding an alignment issue.

Regarding the code BE10, that can be deciphered using the HD:13 tech bulletin found here: https://github.com/pski/model2archive/blob/master/Hardware/Tandy_Hard_Drive_Technical_Bulletins.pdf

 

[mloewen]

Regarding the code BE10, that can be deciphered using the HD:13 tech bulletin found here: https://github.com/pski/model2archive/blob/master/Hardware/Tandy_Hard_Drive_Technical_Bulletins.pdf

Thanks, Pete. Is the floppy decode table the same as the hard drive table? 0xBE sort of makes sense except for bit 3, which is marked as 'undefined'.

I'll try hooking up an external drive before I tear the machine apart. I wanted to try out v3.3 last night!

 

[lowen]

mloewen, did you ever think you'd see MUSIE and Xenix 3.3 in the same week?

 

[mloewen]

mloewen, did you ever think you'd see MUSIE and Xenix 3.3 in the same week?

That's far out. I wasn't aware of either one of them until yesterday.

 

[pski]

Thanks, Pete. Is the floppy decode table the same as the hard drive table? 0xBE sort of makes sense except for bit 3, which is marked as 'undefined'

Good point, Mike. From the System III XENIX Information guide found in the archive: "For the floppy drive, the data displayed is the drive select port and the FDCstatus port."