[Coco] Formatting HD floppies w/ modified controller.

[Mark Marlette]

Paul,

You must be in 6309 mode. ???? I can't format as well but in 6809 
mode it works fine.
Robert Gault did some work on this problem and Robert please step in 
here. I believe that he fixed it by slowing down the coco at certain 
points in the driver. Not sure... Last night I was setting up a 
system and did format on the 6309 v030205 system by putting the whole 
machine in slow mode first. Still collecting data on this.

Mark
Cloud-9


At 10/6/2005 11:01 AM, you wrote:
>Well, I have been trying to format any
>3.5 inch floppies as /D2 and as high-
>density (let's say 1.31mb). Using rb1773,
>etc. only let me get as far as 1 or two
>tracks (watching the LED's) and then quitting
>displaying "Unit Busy Error" or some such
>thing. I could read older HD floppies
>but not format a new one.
>
>I got an older hard-drive, off-loaded
>CC3Disk (the patched one for 512 byte
>sectors) matching device descriptors,
>/D0, /D1 and /D2 (this one is HD). Also,
>Clock, the older one (soft).
>
>Made another boot floppy using these
>different drivers/descriptors and
>VIOLA! I can now format HD floppies.
>
>Hmmm, is there a problem here?
>[Running v325 NitrOS-9
>[w/ CC3Disk and Clock]
>
>Paul - idezilla
>idezilla- at -gmail-.-com, too.
>
>
>
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