[Coco] FW: Color Computer DSKINI / RETRIEVE

[Darren A]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Robert Gault wrote:

>
> This indicates that HDBDOS correctly formatted the 3.5" disk on the Coco3
> such that both sides could be accessed on the PC. Given that the JVC
> emulators and RETRIEVE are old programs, they don't work well with WinXP
> regards floppy drives but work perfectly with Win98SE.
>
>

I highly doubt that HDBDOS formatted it so that sectors on the 2nd side of
the disk have a side number of 1 in their ID fields.  It is far more likely
that the File Port utility was written to request a logical side number of
0 even when using head 1.

- Darren