[Coco] Jeff Vavasour's Web Page notes

[Stephen H. Fischer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:57 PM
Subject: [Coco] Jeff Vavasour's Web Page notes


> From Jeff's page.
> 
> It's been noted on bit.listserv.coco that RETRIEVE and DSKINI may not work with 360K 5 1/4" drives unless you set your PC's BIOS to (mis-)identify the drive as a 720K 3 1/2" drive instead. If you are having difficulty with both versions of RETRIEVE/DSKINI, this is another option to try. Consult your PC's motherboard manual for details on BIOS configuration.

Note: While I had both 5-1/4" and 3.5" drives on my CoCo and a switch to swap /D0 and /D1 all my CoCo disks were read on a PC using a 3.5" drive.

I have never gone into the BIOS to set the Floppy Disk Type as all my laptops have had 3.5" drives only.

My desktop systems except for one very short time have had 3.5" drives only.

So my PC's BIOS always has been set to 720KB / 1.44MB 3.5" type so  I did not have your problem AFAIK.

#50 3.5" 720K disks, ~ $2. About 400 floppies will go to the recycler. (Everything in my Electronics room has been declared to be defective, even the paper as silver fish ate holes in that.) 

SHF