[Coco] HDB-DOS and double sided drives

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Thu Apr 2 20:08:45 EDT 2020


Excellent!

~BWC~



On 4/2/20 6:58 PM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> All setup.     Reading the original RGG-DOS Manual from Ken-Ton 
> explains everything.
>
> Now have 2 physical drives acting as 4 drives (0/2 and 1/3) and hard 
> disk 4 - 255
>
> Everything works as expected with the Sidekick Menu.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> *Sent:* April 2, 2020 6:38 PM
> *To:* rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>; CoCoList for Color 
> Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Coco] HDB-DOS and double sided drives
> The drive address "tags" in "Disk Basic" need to be adjusted for DS
> drives.  This was addressed in  the setup utility with RGB
>
> -DOS and should also be addressed the same in HDB-DOS.
>
> ~BWC~
>
>
> On 4/2/20 6:09 PM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> > I am booting up to HDBDOS and have DW disk 0-3 disabled. I have two 
> doubl sided drives but I can't read drive 2 or 3
> >
> > Sent from the physical keyboard of a BlackBerry
> >    Original Message
> > From: Bruce W. Calkins
> > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 5:59 PM
> > To: rietveld rietveld
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] HDB-DOS and double sided drives
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > ~BWC~
> >
> >
> > On 4/2/20 1:01 PM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> >> Is it possible to use double sided drives with HDB-DOS outside of 
> OS9?   More specifically HDB-DOS DW CC1
> >>


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