[Coco] double sided disks

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Pittel" <fwp at deepthought.com>


> When I got the drive it was suppose to have been "moded"
> by cloud9 to function as a double sided drive. However when
> trying to execute "dir1" nothing seems to happen on the drive
> and eventually it times out with an error.

Did you DSKINI 1 first?

> Another problem (and in my opinion a bigger problem) is that when
> I try to "flip" the ds-dd floppies that I have over and use the other
> side I get an IO error from dskini0. After my first try I remembered
> that I needed to cut out a notch on the side of the disk or when I
> flipped the disk the drive would detect it as being write protected.
> Even after cutting a notch on the side of the disk in the same location
> as the original on the disk to no avail.

The notch is only needed to format and write a flippy which is a very bad
idea anyway. Did you punch an extra hole in the floppies for the index?

I would never try to use the back like that. It was an el cheapo idea when
floppies were $3+ each.

Neil