[Coco] MESS Emulator

[John Donaldson]

Robert,
  I know the drive is a real 360K because I bought at the last Fest I 
went to.

John Donaldson


John Donaldson wrote:

> Robert,
>   I wish you would tell me how to make it work. I am using a 486 DX 
> running MSDOS
> 6.2. I have a 3" drive on A: and a real 360K drive on B: I bought a 
> real copy of TSWORD
> for both RDOS and OS9. On the emulator I have 4 discrptors setup the 
> 4th is setup for
> 35TSSSD which is what the COCO OS9 disk is formated in. I set the 
> emulator to have
> drive B: as /D3. When I put the diskette in and do a DIR /D3, the 
> drive spins but returns
> an error. I also put a fresh diskette in and tryed to format it and 
> again it failed. It is the
> same for both the JV and JC emulators. I know the drive is good 
> because I can format
> read/write under MSDOS.
>
> John Donaldson
>
>
> Robert Gault wrote:
>
>> You probably are running into the problem that was just discussed 
>> here in length. Before you use the floppy on the Coco, run DSKINI.EXE 
>> on it from the PC. Then you can write to it on the Coco and read it 
>> on the PC from an emulator.
>>
>> When I say that the JV emulator works with real floppies, I'm not 
>> just repeating the docs that come with the emulator. I'm reporting 
>> actual results on my WIN98SE system.
>>
>> John Donaldson wrote:
>>
>>> Robert,
>>>   That is true, but if you set /d0 to say b: and then try and do 
>>> even a DIR /D0, it does not
>>> work. The drive spins but returns either a seek or rad error.  I 
>>> have a old 486 DX with
>>> a real 360K coco drive as the B drive.
>>>   You should be able to put a OS9 boot disk in it and it should boot 
>>> OS9. It does not.
>>> I know the drive works with a COCO, since I bought at one of the 
>>> last fests I attended.
>>>
>>> John donaldson
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert Gault wrote:
>>>
>>>> The JV emulator will access real floppies from within the emulator. 
>>>> You just need to tell the emulator that a drive# goes to a:, b:, or 
>>>> whatever your drive number is.
>>>>
>>
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