[Coco] Issues with 26-3022 interface

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

besides the fact you're using only 158 K of a 1.44Mb disk :P

I couldn't make drivewire run on coco1 right ? Otherwise you could transfer
some games to it.


Probably the PC tool to transfer RSDOS disks won't work on a 1.44 drive :(



On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, it have run without any errors. After that I loaded again each BASIC
> program on the tested disk and all of them loaded and executed fine.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
>
> Em 12/02/2013 13:03, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) escreveu:
>
>> ops sorry:
>>
>> the line 10 shoud be:
>>
>> 10 FOR T = 0 TO 34
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
>> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  try this:
>>>
>>> 0 CLEAR 1000
>>> 10 FOR T = 0 TO 35
>>> 20 FOR S = 1 TO 18
>>> 30 DSKI$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
>>> 40 DSKO$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
>>> 50 NEXT S
>>> 60 NEXT T
>>>
>>> This will read every rsdos sector and rewrite it back.
>>>
>>> Try saving some basic program on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
>>> **wrote:
>>>
>>>  Mark,
>>>>
>>>> Em 12/02/2013 11:56, Mark Marlette escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>  Daniel,
>>>>>
>>>>> This HD mod was created by Robert Brose of our computer club many years
>>>>> ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have done this mod, it works. I also added a line from the controller
>>>>> to the drive to automatically switch the transfer rate clock based
>>>>> upon the
>>>>> sensors in the drive rather than just the descriptor.
>>>>>
>>>>> With that said...this is NO easy mod. Almost easier making a new
>>>>> controller.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Yes, for what I saw from the document that Harry sent, it will be no
>>>> easy
>>>> task.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  It requires a the MB8877A(??) memory loss ATM upgrade and then there
>>>>> was
>>>>> also a speed issue running at 1.78MHZ as well. A chip that needed
>>>>> replacing. Was pinged this past weekend on this at Cloud-9 and haven't
>>>>> had
>>>>> the chance to look up my work in my project documentation book. I have
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> The file was up on RTSI for a long time. ????
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>> http://www.cloud9tech.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Ou of curiosity, I just attached today a 3 1/2 1.44M drive to the Coco
>>>> and it worked flawlessly! It formated the disk (a HD disk with the role
>>>> closed to make the drive understand it as 720Kb disk) and SAVEd and
>>>> LOADed
>>>> some programs. No errors ocurred during the format process!
>>>> How can I check the disk to see if it was formated properly ?
>>>>
>>>> This drive is a Mitsumi D359M3D and was already configured to DS0,
>>>> because I used it before with one of my MSX machines.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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