[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?

[Rick Thornquist]

I dug out an old 360KB drive to replace the 1.2MB.  After an hour of cable
finagling I finally got it installed and tried it with Imagedisk.  It
worked!  Woo Hoo!

Thanks for the help, Al and everyone else, I appreciate it.

- Rick


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
wrote:

> It turned out that my 486 had a floppy controller that could write FM. I
> used the TESTFDC program on the Imagedisk site to confirm this.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Johann Klasek
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:55:11AM -0600, Rick Thornquist wrote:
> [..]
>
>> 3. I do have an old 486 with a 5.25 inch drive, and I've tried many
>> programs to write a TRS-80 disk, including emulators, but none have
>> worked.  I hadn't heard of Imagedisk, though.  I tried it and,
>> unfortunately, it didn't work.  It might be because it's a 1.2MB drive,
>> though some of the programs do say they can work with those kind of
>> drives.  I've just dug out an old 360KB drive and will try that instead -
>> we'll see if that works.
>>
> [..]
>
> Just an "old" system is generally not enough. I think the capability to do
> read/write FM is important. You need a proper floppy controller on that PC
> hardware - not easy to accomplish.
>
> See http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80faq.html#[15]
>
> May some information could be useful from my project to read
> "old" OS-9 disks (just the first track was FM recorded) ... just
> for reference read on at
> http://jk.kom.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?OS-9DiskRead
>
> Johann
>
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