[Coco] Gotek floppy emulator

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 15:52:03 EST 2016


On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> The bare DD drive, attached to the coco with a cable adapter CAN do this,
>> IF you can make the format command work. But format even in the
>> nitros9-v3.3.0 release, has been a 100% crash and burn for me for several
>> years.  So my mb scripts have been re-written to clean up an already
>> formatted DD disk before os9gen is invoked.  This includes making a
>> directory entry for track 34, and deleting it to clear the FAT, thereby
>> allowing os9gen to rewrite track 34, otherwise it silently fails to do so.
>
>
> That's really odd behavior.  I'm running version 3.2,9 and format works
> fine.

Does anyone else than Gene have trouble with the format command? Can
this be reproduced in VCC?

Tormod


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