[CoCo] 720kb vs 1.4mb 3.5" disks

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Thu Dec 11 12:32:00 EST 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>


> The floppy drive on the W98/W2000 and separate W95 system will not
read
> COCO formatted 720K diskettes made on the second drive.  But I
assumed
> that the problem was my software, and wasted a lot of time putting
in
> diagnostics in the program.

In some cases I have had to format a floppy on the PC and copy the
files to it from a Coco formatted floppy. There is a timing issue
with the first sector on each track.

NM




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