[Coco] drive motors

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 14 July 2013 19:54:03 Robert Hermanek did opine:

> Oh, that must be it then -- I've been assuming that a healthy DD disk
> would suffice, and that DSKINI could format it, after all it can with
> blank 5-1/4" media.  I don't have VCC set up, never got the hang of it.
> Is there a PC utility for accomplishing the format?  I was simply
> verifying my DD disks by using command:
> 
> FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9
> 
> to specify a 720k format...
> 
> -RobertH
> 
Wrong disk format for a coco.  You need 18, 256 byte sectors per track.

> On 7/13/2013 9:36 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> > You will still need to format the disks. Depending on your Coco
> > system, you could have problems formatting the disks.
> > You can, with VCC, format the disks, either OS-9 or Disk Basic, on a
> > PC for Coco use. Once that is done you can reformat as needed on a
> > Coco system.
> 
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