[Coco] 512K vs disk copy

[Sylvain Rousseau]

Hi every body,

Thank you very much for your help.

I am using RSDOS only.

I have a FD-500 disk drive with a FD-502 controller.  I'm not sur for the 
version of the Disk Basic and I'm not at home so I can't check it now.

I try to add a 5 1/4" but the data connector of this drive is on the left 
so the cable in the
FD-500 is not long enough.

I will try to add a 3 1/2" drive soon.  For now, il will try the softwares 
sent by Mr. Morrison.

Regards,

Sylvain

At 10:30 2004-08-20, you wrote:


>--- Sylvain Rousseau <sroussea at comlab.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just got a Coco3 with 512K with only one disk drive and I what to 
> know if
> > you know how to
> > copy disk without to have to swap 12 times the source and destination disk.
>
>Add a second drive.
>not trying to be a smart alec, that's the best way.
>IF you're using OS-9, you can allocate more memory to the
>backup command. I don't know the exact syntax offhand..
>something like #56k at the end of the backup command line.
>
>It's also really easy to add a 3.5" PC drive as drive 1.
>There are $2 convertors to plug into the cable card-
>edge connector, which then plugs into the 3.5 drive.
>Rig up a power connector and your set.
>
>Then, in Basic there's one POKE to allow you to use
>the other side of it as drive 2 (or 3). This may not
>work with some older RS floppy cables where they
>pulled pins to do designate the drives.
>
>What kind of controller do you have and do you know
>if the current drive is single or double sided?
>Disk Basic 1.0 or 1.1?
>
>Bob
>
>
>
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