[Coco] double sided disks

[Frank Pittel]

It's to bad that hdb-dos doesn't support the ls-120. Of course then
hdb-dos would have to be rewritten to allow using all 120meg. :-)
For the most part it's not an issue since I found that I spent most
of my time in nitros9 anyhow.

Frank


On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 07:54:42PM -0500, Mark Marlette wrote:
> At 11:46 AM 7/3/2005, Frank Pittel wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> The LS-120 drive is an ATAPI device. HDB-DOS doesn't support ATAPI devices, 
> NitrOS-9 does.
> 
> Mark
> Cloud-9
> 
> 
> >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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