[Coco] double sided disks

[Robert Emery]

I suspect Robert G. is right about this. If you want to Frank, you can make the
second side work as drive 1 by issuing POKE55454,65. You could actually use it
as 1 or 2 then.

Your best move though, would probably be to add a 3.5" 1.4Meg floppy drive as
the second drive, which would work as drives 1 and 3 under HDB-DOS. This makes
CoCo<->PC file transfers very easy. New 720K 3.5" disks can still be found.

I started out with a simple basic program that poked RSDOS for double sided
drives and various other patches. Eventually it evolved into Color FOG (File
Operations GUI). Wish I had started it 10 years ago.

cheers,
Bob

> 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



		
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