[Coco] Another drive question

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:20, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 12:10 AM 12/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>They document their method, they have replaced the floppy device
>> driver with one of their own.  Which is a method that I have
>> mentioned.
>
>I didn't see a reference to this on their site.  I'll look again.
>
>>You need to write Windows 2000/XP device driver(s), and provide a
>> special function to set the floppy parameters.
>
>Easy enough. :)
>
>>You might find it easier to write a COCO program that copies a COCO
>> 256 byte sector floppy to one that is 512 byte sectored, and then
>> any host system with a floppy can read it with an application
>> program instead of just limiting it to PCs.
>
>Maybe.  This would require a new disk for every CoCo disk converted
> to 512-byte sector format.  I wouldn't trust overwriting.
>
Oh, its easy enough.  The programs name that runs on the coco (os9) is 
"pcdos".  I've used it many times in years past.

>>It would also allow it to work with PCs that have USB floppy
>> drives, where you would need a different custom device driver.
>>I have the same issue with OpenVMS, the floppy device driver does
>> not have an API where I can set the sector size.  But if the COCO
>> could produce a 512 byte sectored floppy, I could read it on any
>> of my systems.
>
>I also thought the low-level sector codes that surround the actual
> data has to be specific to the system or controller reading the
> disk?
>
>
>{Roger Taylor}

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