[Coco] 3.5" Floppies on my Coco 3!

[Daniel Campos]

I also using a 1.44HD Drive and no problems detected with any disks so far.
But I think if using HD media with an HD Drive (my current config) I 
will have no problems. I think problems occurs most if you are using old 
720Kb drives with HD Media...

The only problem I get is that my Color64 can not load OS9 L1 yet. The 
same config (using the same ROMs) on the XROAR, works like a charm.

Daniel

Em 06/04/2013 13:32, Michael Graham escreveu:
> I must have unusually good luck, then, as I've been using 1.44MB disks 
> with the hole covered as 720KB disks for a few years now, and I 
> generally don't have any problem reading the disks back, even a few 
> weeks after I've written them. I guess I haven't really tested any 
> longer than that, though, as I usually think of something different 
> I'd like to put on the disks, so I reformat and write new content to 
> the disks.
>
> Although, to be fair, I am using exclusively 1.44MB drives in 720KB 
> mode to handle the disks, and I know they won't read back on a real 
> 720KB drive (I did actually try that once).
>
> --Michael
>
> On 04/06/2013 05:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 06 April 2013 06:08:58 Kip Koon did opine:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I communicated with my very first two 3.5" floppy drives on my Coco 3
>>> using Disto's Super Controller tonight!  I put HDBDOS 1.4 DW4 in the
>>> super controller.  It also has the 80x24 Composite video output
>>> daughter board with the mono sound output, an RTC and a Centronics
>>> Parallel port all on the daughter board for those that don't know what
>>> a Disto Super Controller is.
>>>
>>> I successfully formatted two real 720KB 3.5" disks and one 1.44MB disk
>>> with the capacity hole covered to make it look like a 720KB disk.
>>>
>> That won't usually last, sometimes not even an hour.  The recording 
>> is too
>> weak for the magnetic coating of a HD disk and will fade.
>
>
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