[Coco] double sided disks

[Frank Pittel]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:51:24AM -0400, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
> 
> > Did you try using drive 2?    I thought that double sided drive
> > use in hdb-dos meant drive 2 was the back side  of drive 0 and
> > drive 3 was the backside of drive 1.
> 
> A vary real probability.
> 
> > Not true.    The direction of rotation is reversed.     There is a felt
> > liner in floppies which keep the disk clean.     When you flip the disk
> > the rotational direction is reversed and all that dirt comes out and
> > deposits on the read/write head.    Very bad idea.
> >
> > Roy
> 
> RE:  Flippies;
> I theory there might be a problem.  I practice I've never had any problem
> with flippies attributable to the flippies "bi-drictional" rotation.  The
> only reason I seldom use flippies these days, is that true double sided
> drives are cheap, easier and simpler to use as double sided drives.

The only reason I was trying to get the flippies to work is that I couldn't
figure out how to use both sides of the drives I have. Since that problem is
solved I have no reason to go the flippy route.


Frank