[Coco] CoCo Disk Drives

[Michael Brant]

Robert
 thanks, much, when I use Drive off 1, I can access my physical floppies
but do not seem to be able to use drivewire .dsk's.  I am using Drivewire 3
on a Mac Pro.  I don't know if that makes a difference. but if I type drive
on I am able to access drivewire with 0-3 numbers again.  I must be missing
something.
Thanks,
Mike

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Michael Brant wrote:
>
>> I recently acquired  a set of drives for my CoCo 3.  I am using a FD502
>> Controller.
>>
>> I seem to be getting no response from either drive 0 or drive 1.  I have
>> an
>> HDB-DOS Rom in my FD502 controller.  I am able to use Drivewire 3 to
>> connect to my Mac Pro.
>>
>> Any ideas on the best way to test this out?  I tried the DIR command and
>> get error messages, I had disks in both drives just to be certain they
>> weren't cross wired.
>>
>> If one has two physical drives and drivewire, which order do the drive
>> appear to the CoCo 3.
>> would drives 0 and 1 be the physical drives and then drives 2, 3, 4 and 5
>> be the drivewire drives?
>>
>>
> HDBDOS by default will cold start with all the drives as hard drives or
> through the serial port, ie. Drivewire. You must issue the command DRIVE
> OFF, which will make the first 4 drive floppies; 0-3.
> As you have two floppies, you can use DRIVE OFF 1 so that drives 0-1 will
> be floppies and drives 2-255 will be via Drivewire.
>
> Robert
>
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