[Coco] 3.5" drives

James Dessart james at skwirl.ca
Sat Aug 21 11:12:13 EDT 2004


On 21-Aug-04, at 3:35 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:

> Your SCII isn't capable of reading/writing high density.  The only
> CoCo disk controller that could is the original FD-500.  And getting
> that to work aparently takes parts, time, and a good oscilloscope.
>
> There have been many dire warnings about using high-density disks
> formatted double density.  I have had problems that may have been
> caused by this.  I dunno.  YMMV.

This is all unfortunate. :( I was hoping to be able to use high density 
disks as high density disks. If I can't, I think I'll just stick to my 
5.25" drives, since I think double density disks are nigh impossible to 
come across.

James




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