[Coco] CoCoSDC questions

[Michael Kline]

Hi Robert,

I believe that the disk swap option is just for drive 0. It didn't work 
for me trying to mount a multidisk programme in drive 1; either through 
using disk commands or the SDC Explorer.


Michael

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On 06/05/2019 08:20, Robert Gault wrote:
> I have a CoCoSDC Rev. C 11-2013 using the SDC-DOS 1.6 CC3. Some of the 
> commands don't work as I think they should and I'd like to know if 
> this is normal.
>
> The disk swap button only works on drive #0. For example:
> DRIVE0,"GAMES/C/CARMEN" and CARMEN-1.DSK mounts
> Push the swap button and the LEB flashes twice and DRIVE shows 
> CARMEN-2.DSK in drive #0.
> However, when I try:
> DRIVE0,""
> DRIVE1,"GAMES/C/CARMEN"
> ?NE ERROR
> The DRIVE command shows"
> 1: ON  CARMEN.      0
> Pushing the DRIVE button does nothing. The directory not a disk seems 
> to have been mounted.
>
> DRIVE1,"GAMES/C/CARMEN/CARMEN-1"
> will mount the disk but the button still does nothing.
>
> So the PDF manuals on the CoCoSDC imply that the mount commands and 
> button should work for both SDC drives 0 and 1 but they do not. Is 
> this typical and the PDFs are incorrect or do I have a faulty board?
>
> Robert
>