[Coco] Re: Help needed: problems with RETRIEV(E)ing DSK images

Phill Harvey-Smith afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 6 17:23:45 EST 2006


Neil Morrison wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Torsten Dittel" <Torsten at Dittel.info>
> 
>>> Because of the above, any disk I intend to use to transfer data between
>>> the two units is first formatted on the PC with DSKINI.
>>
>> I guess this will cause other problems because my PC's drive is an HD
>> drive (I had a lot of trouble mixing HD & DD drives and media).
> 
> I use a 1.2 Mb 5.25" drive. Works fine

Yeah I have used both 1.2MB and 1.44MB drives (under Linux) to write 
standard DD disks for the CoCo & Dragon without any problems.

Phill.

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