[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[gene heskett]

On Friday, March 30, 2012 11:05:28 PM Bill did opine:

> The drives I just got are 1.2Mb, and I have tried several times to
> format a 360K disk, but for some reason it won't let me. I type in the
> command format b: /f:360 (which SHOULD work), but it gives me an error
> message.
> 
> Has ANYONE been successful formatting a 360K disk in XP with a  1.2Mb
> drive?
> 
> Thanks

The drive is running too fast at 360 revs Bill, and the end of the track is 
over writing the beginning of the track, hence the errors.

Cheers, Gene
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