[Coco]Re: Transfer utilities

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Gene Heskett may have mentioned these words:
>For that you have only 2 choices Glen.  The floppy interface
>specification at one time had 4 drive select possibilities, but when
>double-sided drives came on the scene fairly early, the last, DS3, was
>moved and converted to a side select signal, leaveing only 3 active drive
>selects available.  So if you want double sided drives, then 3 is the
>limit, _unless_ a special decoder board is placed in series with the
>cable, between the cable connector and each drive to allow the decoding of
>a 1 of 8 that can be had with the 3 bits/wires normally used as drive
>selector addressing.  Its possible, and it would be nice to have, but
>AFAIK, nobody has actually done it except the maybe the coco based BBS in
>chicago, Sand-V I think it was called.  The gents name that ran it was
>Mike IIRC.

So you're saying with that mod that it's possible to have up to 8 drives?

Smells like CoCo Floppy RAID to me! ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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