[Coco] How to read CoCo floppies on PC?

[Salvador Garcia]

 Hi Gene,

Many years ago, I had the task of formatting a 1.2MB 5 1/4" floppy with an IBM format, normally used in 8" disks. I found that I had to toss the INT 13h BIOS routine and write my own to be able to format the floppy. Is there a chance that a special format/read/write routine is necessary so that a CoCo floppy drive can be read by a PC?

Regards, Salvador

    On Thursday, December 13, 2018, 11:17:04 AM CST, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:  
 
 On Thursday 13 December 2018 03:36:03 Walter Zambotti wrote:

> What will I require to do this?
>
> Is there a recommend pc floppy drive.
>
> I only need 40 track double sided.
>
> Is it possible to connect a fd-502 directly to a pc?
>
> Walter
>
> Sent from my Xperia by Sony smartphone

That is not normally a problem, but this mobo, a nearly $300 Asus now a 
bit over a decade old, has some sort of a super chip FDC on it, and just 
putting a 256 byte sector formatted disk in any fdc attached drive, will 
lock this machine up tight, needing a full powerdown to reboot it..


-- 
Chee, sors, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

-- 
Coco mailing list
Coco at maltedmedia.com
https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco