[Coco] 3.5" drives

[James Dessart]

On 20-Aug-04, at 9:33 PM, James C. Hrubik, Sr. wrote:

> James, you should be able to add the 3.5 in place of the single-sided 
> drive.  Most of the 3.5s are hardwired as "A" drives, and if your 
> double-sided 5.25 is jumpered as "B" or D2, you should be good to go.  
> RSDOS will see the 3.5 as a 35 track single-sided drive.  OS9 will use 
> everything available.  OR, if you don't mind the way it looks, and can 
> manipulate the jumpers, you could have a 5.25 SS, 5.25 DS, and 3.5 on 
> the system.  I've run 3 drives temporarily (it's ugly to look at!) 
> with the case open for setting up new OS9 boot disks.  Watch the 
> cabling, though.  And you'll want DSDD disks for the 3.5 (but you can 
> fake it for a while using tape on the HD disks).

But would I be able to use HD 3.5" floppies as the full 1.3 MB?

I only plan to use a 3.5" for OS-9, I'd keep all my RS-DOS stuff on 
5.25"... I don't think I'm going to do much more with RS-DOS that'll 
require new floppies.

James