[Coco] drive motors

Robert Hermanek rhermanek at centurytel.net
Sat Jul 13 21:58:26 EDT 2013


I will re-try my 3.5" drive + DD media as Drive 1, and see if there is 
any improvement.  I assume the DD disk does not need to be formatted in 
any way before use? (via PC etc).  Isn't DSKINI the coco equivalent of 
PC format?

Thanks to everyone for all the feedback.

-RobertH

On 7/13/2013 2:11 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Robert,
>
> My 3.5" drive is a Mitsumi model D35M3D with which I use double sided 
> double density disks. The drive is mounted in a 5.25" case which 
> supplies the power supply and connectors.
> I don't have any twisted wires, visible jumpers, or resistor blocks. 
> The drive is used for drive 1. If I wanted it as drive 0, I'd need to 
> cross some address wires or alter my Disk ROM.
>
> Robert
>




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