[Coco] Using a CoCo disk drive with a BBC computer
Dan Olson
dano at agora.rdrop.com
Sat Feb 17 00:50:30 EST 2007
> The BBC uses standard drives either jumpered as DS0 or DS1 (it can only
> normally have 2 drives, a restriction of the firmware), however the way
> these are handled is quite clever.
>
> side 0 of first drive is drive 0
> side 0 of second drive is drive 1
> side 1 of first drive is drive 2
> side 1 of second drive is drive 3
Very strange, it seems like this would have the disadvantage of limiting
the max file size and adding more complexity to file management, with no
real advantage. Is this a result of the DOS or is it hard coded in a ROM
somewhere?
Dan
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