[Coco] FDRAWREAD

[Bill]

In the 1.42 and 1.43 version of VCC, in the FD-502 configuration, in the Physical Disks area, it reads "Windows 2000 or higher and FDRAWREAD driver are required for Physical Disk access"

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From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Robert Gault
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 11:33 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] FDRAWREAD

Not sure what you guys are talking about. The only reference I've seen that is 
reliable regards VCC is the following from the VCC pdf.
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1) The host computer must be running Windows 2000,XP or Vista. Note I have only 
tested this on XP so far.
2) The host computer must have a supported Floppy disk controller chip, (μPD765a 
or equiv.). A USB floppy drive will NOT do.
3) The FDRAWCMD driver must be loaded. These drivers were written by Simon Owen 
and can be downloaded from his website here: http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/
Download and run the fdinstall.exe file.
There are two drop downs. One for each Physical disk drive you may have. Simply 
select the Virtual disk drive from the dropdown next to the Physical disk Letter. 
For Example: To Map Virtual disk 1 to real Drive A:, Select "Drive 1"
from the dropdown next to A:.
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The above may not need to be followed exactly. My WinXP system does not have 
fdrawcmd.sys installed as a floppy driver. It is merely in the VCC directory.

The whole point of fdrawcmd is that it permits access to the floppy hardware so 
that VCC can read real 3.5" disks as well as .dsk images. The selection is made 
from the VCC memu in FD-502 config.