[Coco] Consensus on using two floppy disk controller at the same time?

[Michael Brant]

Would be curious as to this.  Could this be put in an updated ROM such as
SDCdoS or hdb dos that would allow for this ?

On Mar 19, 2017 2:15 PM, "David Ladd" <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tim,
>
> Using two floppy controllers would be the same as using the CoCoSDC & a
> FDC.  You would probably have to write your own routines to switch the MPI
> slot for the I/O lines.  Not sure how Disk Basic would handle.
>
> As far as NitrOS-9 goes that is something I think might need to be updated
> with the disk driver and maybe have a value some place in the descriptor to
> specify which MPI slot the drive is connected through.
>
> Personally, I think this is something that should have been done many years
> ago.  It would have been nice to be able to use multiple controllers for
> use with multiple drives.
>
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> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:29 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Of couse this requires a Multi-Pak, but it also depends on how the
> > cartridges put the NMI* and RESET* lines when not active.
> >
> > Are these lines generally left floating or pulled high?
> >
> >
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