[Coco] Need help with 3.5" drives and NitrOS-9

Tim Fadden t.fadden at cox.net
Wed Dec 4 13:58:21 EST 2013


On 12/4/2013 11:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 December 2013 13:38:31 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu did opine:
>
>> I guess the only thing that is confusing me is that I was using 3.5"
>> disks on my COCO's over 20 years ago when all we had was the original
>> Tandy offered OS-9 and it all worked just fine.
>>
>> bill
>>
> But, like the rest of us, weren't you using an aftermarket ccdisk?  I sure
> was as soon as I discovered it. Circa '85 IIRC.
>
> Cheers, Gene
I used the native OS9 also with 3 1/2 drives also.  The ones I have are 
native 720meg, not the 1.44 type.  I also have a couple of  51/4 720meg 
also.   All I did is set the sides and tracks and it worked.

Tim



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