[Coco] Formatting HD floppies w/ modified controller.

[Paul T. Barton]

Mark,

Can the data rate be done at .895MHz?
Don't think so.

Paul - idezilla

--- Mark Marlette <mark at cloud9tech.com> wrote:

> Paul,
> 
> You must be in 6309 mode. ???? I can't format
> as well but in 6809 
> mode it works fine.
> Robert Gault did some work on this problem and
> Robert please step in 
> here. I believe that he fixed it by slowing
> down the coco at certain 
> points in the driver. Not sure... Last night I
> was setting up a 
> system and did format on the 6309 v030205
> system by putting the whole 
> machine in slow mode first. Still collecting
> data on this.
> 
> Mark
> Cloud-9
> 
> 
> At 10/6/2005 11:01 AM, you wrote:
> >Well, I have been trying to format any
> >3.5 inch floppies as /D2 and as high-
> >density (let's say 1.31mb). Using rb1773,
> >etc. only let me get as far as 1 or two
> >tracks (watching the LED's) and then quitting
> >displaying "Unit Busy Error" or some such
> >thing. I could read older HD floppies
> >but not format a new one.
> >
> >I got an older hard-drive, off-loaded
> >CC3Disk (the patched one for 512 byte
> >sectors) matching device descriptors,
> >/D0, /D1 and /D2 (this one is HD). Also,
> >Clock, the older one (soft).
> >
> >Made another boot floppy using these
> >different drivers/descriptors and
> >VIOLA! I can now format HD floppies.
> >
> >Hmmm, is there a problem here?
> >[Running v325 NitrOS-9
> >[w/ CC3Disk and Clock]
> >
> >Paul - idezilla
> >idezilla- at -gmail-.-com, too.



		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 
http://mail.yahoo.com