[Coco] Primer on building multiple floppy drive systems?

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:27:02 -0500
piperfox74 <piperfox74 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey folks!
> 
> I have two Chinon FZ-502 floppy drives. These should be DSDD 360K
> drives. They have jumpers for drive select and termination. If I want
> to use both for a CoCo, what’s the correct DS and Termination
> settings, and in what order on the drives?
> 
> At the moment, I’m a bit befuddled, as the way I have these
> configured, DECB correctly sees a Drive 0 and a Drive 1, and a DIR
> and DIR 1 correctly read the drives and disks I suspect they should.
> However, when I type DOS, what I’d consider Drive 1 tries to read a
> disk instead of Drive 0. I suspect I’ve just got something
> misconfigured, but I can’t find any documentation on the right way to
> build a dual-drive CoCo setup.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 

(other) Christopher:

    If you did the commands in that order ( 'DIR' 'DIR 1' and 'DOS' )
that is the correct response.

    If you ( 'DIR 1' 'DIR' and 'DOS' ) the dos command will run from
drive 0. (At least, the stock DECB) DOS command accesses the last used
drive.


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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