[Coco] double disk drive

[Robert Emery]

--- Sylvain Rousseau <sroussea at comlab.com> wrote:


> Thank you very much Mr. Emery,

> 

> I install a switch following your instructions and it works great!

> 

> Best Regards,

> 

> Sylvain


That's great! It's very nice not having to worry about which media you want to
boot from. :-)

But please, call me Bob (or Robert if you *must* be formal). ;-)



> >

> >Yes, the software method will let you "re-map" the drives however you want

> >them, but a large portion of software out there bypasses the drive tables 

> >after

> >they take over the disk I/O process. Most if not all of this software seems

> to

> >make the assumption that nobody would ever want to use anything other than

> >drive 0. :(  It's really easy for software to tell which drive the program

> was

> >launched from (Color FOG does, even from HD) and continue accessing the same

> >drive, but for some reason, most CoCo disk based software does not do this

> >simple check.

> >

> >cheers,

> >Bob Emery

> >




		
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