[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Fedor Steeman]

Awesome, you guys! I will give it a shot as soon as I can!

Thnx,
Fedor

2008/10/5 Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>:
> On 10/5/08, Fedor Steeman wrote:
>>
>> The drives are jumperable and they look like they could be used for
>> (earlier) PCs as well, so I have my hopes up...
>>
>
> If you can configure the drive to respond as Drive 1 (not 0) on the
> CoCo, then it will likely work on the PC in that configuration.
> Setting a jumper to enable READY may also be required.
>
> Go to <http://www.nitros9.org/howto.html#dsk> and use the links there
> to download the fdrawcmd.sys driver and the CoCoDisk utility. These
> will allow you to access coco floppies on a Windows XP machine.
>
> Darren
>
> 2008/10/5 Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at gmail.com>:
>
> With some floppies made on the Coco, all sector 1's were unreadable
> -something to do with gaps. By formatting on the PC you could read/write
> them with a PC or Coco. I had to copy 2 or 3 hundred myself, but only 10 or
> 20 needed this fix.