[Coco] MESS Emulator

[John Donaldson]

DSKINI formated the diskette. the JV/JC emulator returns Error 247 seek 
error.

John Donaldson


Robert Gault wrote:


> Before you try anything else, place a fresh disk (or one with no 

> important data) in drive B: and use the PC utility DSKINI.EXE to 

> format it

> DSKINI B: /T35

>

> Then start the JV/JC emulator and see if the disk in drive B: can be 

> read with a DIR3. If you still can't read the disk, then there is some 

> BIOS or hardware issue on the PC. Post the results of this test.

>

> If the disk could be read on the emulator, place the disk in a Coco 

> drive and copy some files to it. Take it back to the PC and try to 

> read it with the emulator.

>

> John Donaldson wrote:

>

>> Robert,

>>   I wish you would tell me how to make it work. I am using a 486 DX 

>> running MSDOS

>> 6.2. I have a 3" drive on A: and a real 360K drive on B: I bought a 

>> real copy of TSWORD

>> for both RDOS and OS9. On the emulator I have 4 discrptors setup the 

>> 4th is setup for

>> 35TSSSD which is what the COCO OS9 disk is formated in. I set the 

>> emulator to have

>> drive B: as /D3. When I put the diskette in and do a DIR /D3, the 

>> drive spins but returns

>> an error. I also put a fresh diskette in and tryed to format it and 

>> again it failed. It is the

>> same for both the JV and JC emulators. I know the drive is good 

>> because I can format

>> read/write under MSDOS.

>>

>> John Donaldson

>>

>>

>> Robert Gault wrote:

>>

>>> You probably are running into the problem that was just discussed 

>>> here in length. Before you use the floppy on the Coco, run 

>>> DSKINI.EXE on it from the PC. Then you can write to it on the Coco 

>>> and read it on the PC from an emulator.

>>>

>>> When I say that the JV emulator works with real floppies, I'm not 

>>> just repeating the docs that come with the emulator. I'm reporting 

>>> actual results on my WIN98SE system.

>>>

>>> John Donaldson wrote:

>>>

>>>> Robert,

>>>>   That is true, but if you set /d0 to say b: and then try and do 

>>>> even a DIR /D0, it does not

>>>> work. The drive spins but returns either a seek or rad error.  I 

>>>> have a old 486 DX with

>>>> a real 360K coco drive as the B drive.

>>>>   You should be able to put a OS9 boot disk in it and it should 

>>>> boot OS9. It does not.

>>>> I know the drive works with a COCO, since I bought at one of the 

>>>> last fests I attended.

>>>>

>>>> John donaldson

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Robert Gault wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> The JV emulator will access real floppies from within the 

>>>>> emulator. You just need to tell the emulator that a drive# goes to 

>>>>> a:, b:, or whatever your drive number is.

>>>>>

>>>

>>

>>

>>

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