[Coco] double sided disks

[Frank Pittel]

I thought I tried drives 0-3 before sedning the first email. It looks
like I didn't since when I tried using dskini2 and then dir2 all worked
fine. Thanks for your help!!

Frank



On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:04:07AM -0400, Robert Gault wrote:

> You need to know what Cloud-9 expects in terms of drive numbers. The 

> typical numbering for double sided drives follows:

> 

> Physical drive #      Logical Coco drive #

> 1                     0 & 2

> 2                     1 & 3

> 

> Try DSKINI2 and DIR2 on your system.

> 

> Frank Pittel wrote:

> >I finally got a floppy drive for my coco3. It's a 501 with

> >a 501 controller. For the most part I got it working but

> >see a couple of issues that I can't seem to get past.

> >

> >When I got the drive it was suppose to have been "moded"

> >by cloud9 to function as a double sided drive. However when

> >trying to execute "dir1" nothing seems to happen on the drive

> >and eventually it times out with an error. I tried using a 502

> >drive that I have and hdb-dos. Nothing seems to work. Is this an

> >issue with the 501 controller?

> >

> >Another problem (and in my opinion a bigger problem) is that when

> >I try to "flip" the ds-dd floppies that I have over and use the other

> >side I get an IO error from dskini0. After my first try I remembered

> >that I needed to cut out a notch on the side of the disk or when I

> >flipped the disk the drive would detect it as being write protected.

> >Even after cutting a notch on the side of the disk in the same location

> >as the original on the disk to no avail.

> >

> >Am I stuck using only one side of the disks?

> >

> >Frank

> >

> 

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