[Coco] Drive speed incompatibilities

[Robert Gault]

If you can still read your old disks on the old drive, do a single drive copy
with the added job of swapping not only the disk but the drive as well. That
should get you started.

If the problem is drive rotational speed, you better hope that the new drive is
the one out of spec. If the old drive was out of spec, the disks made on it will
need that out of spec drive to be read. If the new drive does have speed
problems and can be adjusted, there should be a strobe wheel on the drive.

"Steeman, Fedor" wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could help me!
> 
> I recently replaced my two really old floppy drives with a single unit combining a newer floppy drive 0 with a new diskette drive 1 I bought at vintagefunworld.com. This was meant to easily moving files back and forth between my PC and CoCo. It works fine with running programs downloaded from the internet on my CoCo. But I also had a plan to backup all my old floppies to diskettes and then pop these into the PC to convert them to virtual disks. However, I am not getting anywhere, because the new floppy drive cannot read my old floppies !
> 
> I was told this may have to do with differing drive speeds and I am pretty sure now that it is that. I have then tried to connect my old drive0 to the newer drives in all possible kinds of permutations, but I just cannot seem to get them to work together!
> 
> Another solution would be a program called COLORTAC.BIN, which helps in determining and adjusting the drive speed. Could anyone pass me a copy of this or give some other suggestions on how to solve this problem?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Fedor
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