[Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Wed Jan 9 13:22:44 EST 2008


It SOUNDS like you want to take a system that can access the equivalent of four
single-sided drives and turn it into a system that can only access two
single-sided drives.  Why in the world would you want to do that?  You could
accomplish the same by throwing one of your double-sided drives in the trash.

Art

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ghislain Harvey wrote:

> Well not exactly. What I want is that DIR0 give me the same result as DIR2.
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De
> la part de Rogelio Perea
> Envoyé : January-08-08 4:58 PM
> À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Objet : Re: [Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.
> 
> Do you mean you want to access both sides of the drive (and thus the whole
> 360k of available data space) as if it were a single drive?
> 
> If that's the case then it is not possible unless you use OS9. RSDOS is
> limited to access the drive as currently setup in your CoCo 3 disk
> controller, side A is DRIVE 0 and side B is DRIVE 2.
> 
> 
> - Rogelio
> 
> 
> On Jan 8, 2008 3:14 PM, Ghislain Harvey <ghislainharvey at videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hi great community.
> > I have a Coco3 128k with 2 drives that are double sides. DIR0 and DIR2 is
> > for the same drive but can access different data.
> > I would like to know if there is a way to make the system work as its only
> > Single Sided? IS is a command related or I must absolutely used single
> > sided
> > Drives?
> > Thanks
> > Ghislain Harvey
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