[Coco] Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[Bob Emery]

--- John Collyer <johncollyer at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> No, it will not!  Win XP can read 35/40 track floppies just
> fine, but they are 512-Byte sectors. [snip]

Ah... this is where I was getting the geometry confused.
They're still 40 tracks, just bigger sectors. We *can*
achieve the same size, but with a higher track count
and smaller sectors. Got it.

> In Win XP you cannot change the way the
> FDC works unless you write a device driver.  Not only
> that, you must get a ok from Microsoft that your driver
> works correctly and then they will issue you a way to
> change the XP drivers.  If you don't get Microsoft's ok
> you cannot change the driver.  This is why I suggested [snip]

This is why XP the only copy of XP in my house is on a friends
computer that I am preparing to *fix* by reformatting and
installing WinME, which BTW has *no problem* reading/writing
real CoCo disks.

> that you look at the July 1986 issue of the Rainbow for
> Marty Goodman's CoCo to MS-DOS utility.  It already
> will write a single sided floppy correctly for MS-DOS and
> this will be able to be read from Win XP.

I hope I have that in my archives... haven't had a chance to
look yet, but I think that would be great if we can use our
CoCos to get around Uncle Bills infinite wisdom of what we
no longer need on our PCs.

Bob

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