[Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.

[Arthur Flexser]

It SOUNDS like you want to take a system that can access the equivalent of four
single-sided drives and turn it into a system that can only access two
single-sided drives.  Why in the world would you want to do that?  You could
accomplish the same by throwing one of your double-sided drives in the trash.

Art

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ghislain Harvey wrote:


> Well not exactly. What I want is that DIR0 give me the same result as DIR2.

> 

> -----Message d'origine-----

> De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De

> la part de Rogelio Perea

> Envoyé : January-08-08 4:58 PM

> À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

> Objet : Re: [Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.

> 

> Do you mean you want to access both sides of the drive (and thus the whole

> 360k of available data space) as if it were a single drive?

> 

> If that's the case then it is not possible unless you use OS9. RSDOS is

> limited to access the drive as currently setup in your CoCo 3 disk

> controller, side A is DRIVE 0 and side B is DRIVE 2.

> 

> 

> - Rogelio

> 

> 

> On Jan 8, 2008 3:14 PM, Ghislain Harvey <ghislainharvey at videotron.ca> wrote:

> 

> > Hi great community.

> > I have a Coco3 128k with 2 drives that are double sides. DIR0 and DIR2 is

> > for the same drive but can access different data.

> > I would like to know if there is a way to make the system work as its only

> > Single Sided? IS is a command related or I must absolutely used single

> > sided

> > Drives?

> > Thanks

> > Ghislain Harvey

> 

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