[Coco] [Color Computer] Got my Coco out of mothballs...

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 28 September 2013 18:13:33 Marc Charbonneau did opine:

> That thread is raising one question in my mind : should not be that hard
> to write a filesystem driver for Linux to be able to format and
> read/write files in the coco floppy format. Then we could just use
> normal commands (or GUI tools) to copy to/from coco floppy.
> 
> Anybody having the knowledge to do that ?
> 
That rather quickly runs into hardware limits on some motherboards.

Attempting to set _any_ driver profile with setfdparm that involves 256 
byte sectors OR track 0, sector 0 access, locks this machine up tight, 
requiring a hardware reset to reboot it.  The hardware ASUS used for 
SuperIO, is in that regard, buggier than a 10 day old carcass.

Cheers, Gene
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