[Coco] Retrieve on feeble-minded disks

[John Collyer]

It could help, but retrieve handles 80 Track HD 5.25 drives ok.
You need to tell it that is what your doing.  Add the /8 option
on the command line.

/8           if using 80-track disks in a 1.2Mb drive

I still think the easiest method is to get a least one 3.5 floppy
drive on your coco and use 720k diskettes.  I never had a
problem with this method.

I got a old IBM compatible AT machine from Goodwill
it had a MFM 20 MB hard drive, a 720 3.5 floppy drive,
and a 5.25 40 Track floppy in it.  I also found a Tower
in the garbage, it had 80 MB hard drives and 3.5 floppy
CD ide drive.  Inside the CD drive was MS NT 4.0 Server
Pro CD disk.

John Collyer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 9:11 AM
Subject: [Coco] Retrieve on feeble-minded disks


> I already asked that before but I don't remember the replies: Is it
> possible (or would it help) to put a CoCo 40 Track DD 5.25" drive in my
> PC (instead of the 80 Track HD 5.25")? Which BIOS settings are necessary
> (if any)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Torsten
> 
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