[Coco] Actual FDD replacement with Emulator.

[rietveld rietveld]

When you DSKINI the it will give am IO Error but when you do a DIR it shows a few valid disk with available 68.

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Hi.   I have one and it does work... sort of

Let me start by saying that I have a SDC in a John Strong case that cost $70 and a 8gb SD for $7.  So for $77 I have a true plug and play drive emulator

I have a gotek that cost me $80; and it's far from plug n play

The Gotek is not a direct replacement for the coco floppy. it does fit in a 5 1/4 drive enclosure but uses 3 1/2 drive connections.  You need a 34 pin female connector instead of the edge card connector and uses the smaller power plug

I was able to use the software to partition it into 100 blocks (disks) that are 80 track 720k.  The coco won't read them and when I DSKINI the disk gets formatted to 35 track 158k



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From: bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Sent: December 22, 2017 7:23 PM
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I've got three different versions and none of them have worked so far.

bill

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com<mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com>> on behalf of Carlos Camacho <idevgames at gmail.com<mailto:idevgames at gmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Actual FDD replacement with Emulator.

This post caught my eye. So a normal CoCo floppy controller just plugs into
those cheap Chinese floppy emulators and you're good to go? Or requires
lots of tinkering? Speed wise? Assume it's limited still by the I/O of the
controller?

Cheers
Carlos

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