[Coco] high density floppy controller mods
jdaggett at gate.net
jdaggett at gate.net
Fri Aug 4 09:15:35 EDT 2006
Do you have enough time to lay down (36) 256 byte sectors before the
index mark comes back around?
james
On 3 Aug 2006 at 21:32, Mike Pepe wrote:
> It lives! (I think!)
>
> Finished the mods tonight. I made sure it still worked as a normal
> controller.
>
> Then I put a HD disk in the drive.
>
> in BASIC I did:
>
> poke &hffd9,0
>
> to double the coco speed
>
> poke &hff41,1
>
> to double my hacked controller's speed
>
> dskini0
>
> returned to OK (!)
>
> dir
>
> shows an empty directory!
>
> Now, if someone knows offhand how to poke 36 sectors into the dskini
> routine, I can see if it's actually formatting in HD mode or not.
>
> -Mike
>
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