[Coco] Another drive question

[Bruce Calkins]

The impression I have gotten is, that along about the late Pentium one days,
the motherboards or OS's started reading the drive specifications on
startup, ignoring the BIOS settings.  I have had some luck with a 360k (40
track DSDD) drive with a BIOS setting of 720k using a 486 board.  This
"trick" has not worked for me with any Pentium one board computer.  I have
had some luck using the 1.2 Meg 5.25" drives on a Pentium one, using John
Collyer's DSKINI and FRESHLY ERASED disks.

Bruce W.

> Hi,
> although this might have been already discussed a zillion times:
>
> What BIOS settings are recommended for a 5.25" CoCo drive (I guess TEAC,
> 40 track double density, possibly double sided (but I never used that
> for my CoCo disks)?
>
> I have an ASUS A7V-133 motherboard with a 1GHz Athlon installed, running
> Windows 98SE.
>
> Best regards,
> Torsten