[Coco] STATUS - Re: Resurrecting a CoCo (26-3001) with a 26-3029 FDC.

[Benoit Bleau]

Ryan Pritchard wrote:
> I have success with formatting a diskette with the CoCo.
>
> This confirms my cable and drive controller are working correctly.  I 
> lucked out and found what looks to have been a never used Teac 
> FD-55F-03-U in with the two Gimix systems I had dug out of storage in 
> my moms basement ;).
>
> Ran DSKINI1 and the drive chugged away, to the middle of the opening 
> on the diskette.  Head reset back to track 0 and then verified the 
> format.
>

Ryan,
The FD-55F-03-U are 96tpi drives, or better know as double-sided 80 
track drives.  You will be able to use them with an unmodified coco 
controller, but won't be able to read/write standard 48tpi drives ( the 
regular 35 or 40 tracks)

With Nitros9 or OS9 you can use the full capacity of the drives by 
modifying the device descriptors.

-Benoit