[Coco] Re: From virtual disk to real disk

[Nathan Woods]

John E. Malmberg writes: 

> A test on Windows NT 4.0 revealed that from a non-privileged user account 
> it could read COCO disks.  This should have the same protection as XP and 
> 2000. 
> 
> What did not work was the MS-DOS file system calls. 
> 
> So using the documented BIOS calls from the Microsoft C library should 
> work to access a previously formatted COCO disk.

I do not know about WinNT 4, but using the Windows APIs that MSDN explicitly 
states are intended to support 5 1/4 drives simply fail on Win2000.  The 
error code is not a permission error, just a simple know-nothing failure. 

My bet is that this is a bug, plain and simple, and our friends in Redmond 
are just not bothering to fix it because to be fair, 5 1/4 drives do not 
matter in the grand scheme of things.