[Coco] 3.5" drives

[Steve Ostrom]

James, Mark at Cloud-9 has just finished upgrading my two dual floppy 
drive systems to exactly what you are asking.  I'm not very good at 
hardware mods so I give him all these projects to work on.  Check with 
Mark.  He's really incredible with hardware.

-- Steve --


James Dessart wrote:

>I'm interested in putting a 3.5" drive on my CoCo, since 3.5" floppies are
>still available in stores, and I do have a couple of Macs that can
>read/write to them (even in PC format).
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>My current setup is an SCII, with two 5.25" drives in the FD-501 case
>(sold or traded the controller long ago). One is the original single-sided
>drive, and the other is a double sided drive.
>
>What I'd like to have is the double sided 5.25" and add a 3.5" to the
>system, getting rid of the single-sided drive. Will this work with RS-DOS?
>And what would I have to do to get it working in OS-9? Could I use high
>density diskettes? Would I be able to read MSDOS FAT formatted diskettes
>from OS-9? Would I need to make any hardware changes?
>
>I have an order for DriveWire placed, so that'll maybe alleviate my desire
>to do this... :)
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>James
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