[Coco] toolshed on windows 7 how does it do 256 byte sectors?

[David Ladd]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 9:08 PM John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw at qsl.net> wrote:

> I am trying to look through the toolshed code to try to figure out how
> the diskini.exe can create a floppy with 256 byte sectors on Windows 7
> or later.
>
> I am also trying to see if it provides a way to read my DECB formated
> coco disks on Windows 7 or later.
>
> It looks like I can use the instructions on Linux to copy a floppy to a
> disk image, but I am not sure if the USB floppy can handle 256 byte
> sectors, has anyone tried that?
>

USB Floppy Drive's are design to only work with the standard 512Byte sector
layout used by Window and macOS systems that used the 1.44MB HD size.
There are a few USB drives that will do the 720K DD disks, but it depends
on the model of drive.

To use a real floppy drive you must have a compatible floppy controller on
your motherboard.

Otherwise right now best cheap option is a Greaseweazle and using the
HxCFloppyEmulator software to convert the image to the JVC format used by
the CoCo emulators or SDC.



>
> I seem to be short a working x86 system with an actual floppy drive at
> the moment.
>
> Regards,
> -John
>
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