[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] CoCo Max patching

[Peter Wemm]

On Monday 28 November 2005 03:44 pm, Mike Pepe wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > On Monday 28 November 2005 10:44 am, Mike Pepe wrote:
> >> I just built myself an "FD-503"- a rebuilt FD500 case with new
> >> power supply, a 360k drive, a 720k 5.25" drive, and a 1.44M 3.5"
> >> drive- so I can copy any format disk to any other.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, how are you handling the 1.44M drives?  Are you
> > modifying an old style controller to use the higher clock rate or
> > something else?  (eg: an IDE floppy drive - like a zip drive but
> > reads/writes 720K/1.44M floppies [and 120M floppies]).
>
> Actually, I'm not. The 1.44 drive is only (perhaps ever) seeing 720k
> media.
>
> I'm going to start wire-wrapping a prototype high density controller
> one of these days. :)

I have a couple of spare LS-120 drives that read/write 1.44M media.  
They use the same atapi protocol as zip drives, and zip drives are (in 
theory) supported by things like the cloud9 superide controller.  In 
theory, if zip drives work, then it shouldn't be that hard to make one 
of these drives read/write a 1.44M floppy under coco control.  Perhaps 
even 720K too.

Meanwhile, I use them on my unix machines on the occasion that I need 
1.44M floppy media, because they're much faster than regular floppy 
drives.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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