[Coco] 360K drives

[Diego Barizo]

AFAIK, the JV emu is not programmed to read/write to the real drives. It 
will only use the DSK files.
Then you can create real disks from the DSK files, using the utilities 
included in the emulator.

Diego

John Donaldson wrote:

>   I have asked this question before, but never got a complete answer.
>
> Is it possible to use a real 360K drive on a machine that is running 
> the JV/JC emulator and use it
> as a real coco drive. That is have the emulator format it and copy 
> from/write to it, just like a real
> COCO3 would do.
>
> Reason I am asking, I have a old IBM 486 DX4 desktop that is running 
> DOS 6.2 and the JV/JC
> emulator and both 6809 and 6309 NitrOS9. It has a real 360K drive a 
> the B: drive.
> The problem is I have never got it to work under either DOS or OS9. 
> Neither will format it or read/write
> from/to it.
>  I can use the DSKINI.EXE and it WILL format and transfer files to the 
> 360K drive. ALso RETRIEVE.EXE
> also works with the 360K drive.  So I do know that it is NOT the 
> machine hardware or the DOS 6.2 OS that
> is at fault. I don't think either the 6809 or 6309 version of OS9 or 
> the DOS roms set that is at fault. So it has
> to be something with the emulator itself.
>
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> John Donaldson
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