[Coco] Consensus on using two floppy disk controller at the same time?

David Ladd davidwladd at gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 14:15:17 EDT 2017


Tim,

Using two floppy controllers would be the same as using the CoCoSDC & a
FDC.  You would probably have to write your own routines to switch the MPI
slot for the I/O lines.  Not sure how Disk Basic would handle.

As far as NitrOS-9 goes that is something I think might need to be updated
with the disk driver and maybe have a value some place in the descriptor to
specify which MPI slot the drive is connected through.

Personally, I think this is something that should have been done many years
ago.  It would have been nice to be able to use multiple controllers for
use with multiple drives.

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:29 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:

> Of couse this requires a Multi-Pak, but it also depends on how the
> cartridges put the NMI* and RESET* lines when not active.
>
> Are these lines generally left floating or pulled high?
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