[Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.

[George Ramsower]

Here's what I would do to find out exactly what is going on in this system:

I've NEVER found it easy to make new things work well!


Place two unused, double sided disks in those drives (write protect tabs 
off) and type the following:
         "note!" DSKINI0 ends with a zero

You will have to wait while it is doing this between each step...
Type the following:

 DSKINI0
 DSKINI1
 DSKINI2
 DSKINI3

> Watch the lights. >DSKINI0 and DSKINI1 should both light the drive one 
> light
>                                 >DSKINI2 and DSKINI3 should both light the 
> drive two light
> Then type

10 print "hello"

> Then type:

DRIVE 0"
SAVE "DRIVE0"
DRIVE 1
SAVE "DRIVE1"
DRIVE 2
SAVE "DRIVE2"
DRIVE3
SAVE "DRIVE3"

> Now type :

DIR0
DIR1
DIR2
DIR3

 Note the drive lights! Drive one should light on both DIR0 and DIR1. Drive 
two should light on DIR2 and DIR3 on both the DISKINI command and the DIR 
command
 You should see in each one, the file name in each disk selected. If they 
don't match, then we need to find out why. This will probably take some time 
inspecting the cable , the controller and the disk drives. I suspect we may 
find something exciting that can be used to your advantage.


George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.


> Ghislain Harvey wrote:
>> Thanks for the info.
>> SO if you have 2 drives single sided, DIR0=drive1  DIR1=Drive2 .  What 
>> will
>> DIR2 and DIR3 give? IO error?
>> Sorry this message is a correction of the last because of a typo.
>
> If your system has only two drives, they are single sided, and the dip 
> switches in the drives are set for 1 and 2 (or 0 and 1 depending on drive) 
> then DIR2 or DIR3 will give "?IO ERROR".
>
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