[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Fedor Steeman]

Thanks, Robert. That sounds like some interesting and important information
for my little endeavour.

Right now I stand with a huge library of hundreds of diskettes that I would
like to store on my hard disk as virtual floppies and then make available
through the internet. Until now I would backup these (5.25" floppies) to
3.25" floppies using the CoCo and then would read them in on the PC. Of
course, that is a bit tedious for so many disks. So it seemed to me I would
save a lot of time if I could leave out the CoCo out of the equation and
read the floppies in directly on my PC instead. The drive I wanted to use to
this end was previously used to read and write these same disks.

Are you saying that I can save the trouble and keep on doing the backing up
on the CoCo, because success is far from guaranteed with doing it directly
on the PC?

Cheers,
Fedor

2009/1/18 Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>

> Fedor Steeman wrote:
>
>> Thanks Gene, but I don't think it will be a problem. My sole intent was to
>> read disks with this drive using Omniflop, not to write anything on them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fedor
>>
>>
> Both omniflop.sys and fdrawcmd.sys can have problems reading disks
> formatted on a Coco. It is not the sector data or overall structure that is
> the problem but the low level format.
>
> If there are problems, it always works better with a disk formatted on the
> PC with either of the above and then filled with data on the Coco. That
> means COPY, BACKUP, SAVE, WRITE, format L, and any of the OS-9 write
> commands work fine. DSKINI or format (physical) can make the disk unreadable
> on the PC; not always but often enough to be avoided.
>
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