[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Floppy drives on E-bay

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

Depends on how you set it up.  IIRC, my system ( unbooted for about 
1-1/2 years now) boots from a 720K floppy in a 1.44 D0.  The 5.25 360K 
is D1.

On Saturday, January 22, 2005, at 08:44  PM, Kevin Diggs wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	Since OS-9 knows how to read a 40 track disk in an 80 track drive, 
> the only thing you need a 40 track drive for is booting. Also, I seem 
> to recall from looking at the Teac PDF for the common 5.25" HD floppy 
> that it can be jumpered to operate as a DD drive.
>
> 					kevin
>
> Steve Ostrom wrote:
>> I understand that 360KB floppy drives are very scarce now.  If anyone 
>> knows of a supply of new or used units, I would really like to know 
>> about it.  I've done a lot of searching with Google and have found 
>> some supplies, but the cost is over $100 in most cases.  I'm not 
>> surprised that these Coco FD's are going for high bids.  The last 
>> time I talked to Mark M. about floppy drives, his supply was almost 
>> exhausted.  Hopefully an inexpensive supply will resurface.  I still 
>> use my floppy drive quite a bit.  I have two Cloud-9 hard drive 
>> systems on my two Coco setups, but I still need the floppy drives to 
>> transfer my Coco disks to the hard drive.  I'm also still buying Coco 
>> software on eBay, items which I don't own and want for my collection. 
>>  These still need to be backed up the HD.
>
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