[Coco] 8 inch drive on a coco limitations

[Bill Pierce]

Henry, as Gene stated, it's probably due to the drive speed being different making it write past it's intended end point. This makes the next sector write start at the proper point, therefore overwriting the tail of the last sector written. 

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
To: Coco mailing list <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, May 19, 2018 12:00 am
Subject: [Coco] 8 inch drive on a coco limitations

So it seems that the 8 inch disk will format to "35 track 158k", but not all of the tracks seem to be useableI get free 68 when doing a FREE(0) but when I copy a large file I get an IO error, several small programs seem to be ok.This is not really a deal breaker for me since i never intended to use it as a primary storage device.Since I already have a 8 inch drive setup on my Model2 i will just leave it conected to my 2mb coco3.   I only use that coco with an old skool SCSI harddrive that boots HDBDOS 4 in 1 from floppy . Since the HDBDOS boot file is so small it does write and read from the 8 inch disk without error.The drive is overkill for this purpose but it will definitely raise some eyebrows at Tandy Assembly this year.-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco