[Coco] double sided disks

[Frank Pittel]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:05:04AM -0700, Robert Emery wrote:
> I suspect Robert G. is right about this. If you want to Frank, you can make the
> second side work as drive 1 by issuing POKE55454,65. You could actually use it
> as 1 or 2 then.

I think in the long run I'll be better off sticking with the defaults.
 
> Your best move though, would probably be to add a 3.5" 1.4Meg floppy drive as
> the second drive, which would work as drives 1 and 3 under HDB-DOS. This makes
> CoCo<->PC file transfers very easy. New 720K 3.5" disks can still be found.

I've got an LS120 drive and although it doesn't work with hdb-dos it works
fine with nitros9. I'm starting to think that getting a 3.5" drive might be
a good idea. I've got drivewire for transfering files between my coco and pc.


Frank


 
> I started out with a simple basic program that poked RSDOS for double sided
> drives and various other patches. Eventually it evolved into Color FOG (File
> Operations GUI). Wish I had started it 10 years ago.
> 
> cheers,
> Bob
> 
> > You need to know what Cloud-9 expects in terms of drive numbers. The 
> > typical numbering for double sided drives follows:
> > 
> > Physical drive #      Logical Coco drive #
> > 1                     0 & 2
> > 2                     1 & 3
> > 
> > Try DSKINI2 and DIR2 on your system.
> > 
> > Frank Pittel wrote:
> > > I finally got a floppy drive for my coco3. It's a 501 with
> > > a 501 controller. For the most part I got it working but
> > > see a couple of issues that I can't seem to get past.
> > > 
> > > 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. I tried using a 502
> 
> 
> 
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