[Coco] [COCO] CoCoSDC & Real Floppy Drive SIDE2

[Allen Huffman]

We should start adding these tips to a CoCoPedia page or something. 

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> On Jan 8, 2015, at 12:37 AM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I thought I would share this nice tidbit here.
> 
> I was doing some playing around, because someone was wondering how to
> do it, to get access to the second side of a real floppy drive when
> using SDCDOS.
> 
> Well the standard disk basic pokes to set the drive select and head
> select still work.
> The problem really isn't a problem, but people need to remember to do a:
> DRIVE 2,OFF
> or
> DRIVE 3,OFF
> 
> Otherwise DRIVE 2 and DRIVE 3 by default try to connect to a DW server
> connected to the bitbanger port.
> 
> So basic example would be if you wanted to access the back side of
> real floppy drive 0 you would need to do the following:
> POKE&HD89F,&H41
> DRIVE 2,OFF
> 
> Then you could do a:
> DIR 2
> 
> and you would get the directory off of the back side of the real
> floppy disk in drive 0.  Now remember I am actually talking about the
> REAL disk controller and not the CoCoSDC at this point.
> 
> Now if you lets say wanted the back side of drive 1 like the old days
> where DRIVE 4 was the back side of the real drive 1.  So you would do
> this:
> POKE&HD8A0,&H42
> DRIVE 4,OFF
> 
> and then you should have access to the back side of the real floppy
> disk in drive 1. So if you did a:
> DIR 4
> 
> you should see a directory listed of that disk.
> 
> I hope this helps anyone out there that might have been wondering how
> to access the back side of the REAL floppy drives when using the
> SDCDOS.
> 
> Have fun all :D
> 
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