[Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.

[Arthur Flexser]

Can you be more specific?  I'm curious, since a copy-protected game would have
to assume a single-sided system, I'd think, since that's what a stock CoCo
originally came with.  So, why should the game care whether DIR 2 accesses a
different drive, or the back side of drive zero?

Art

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Ghislain Harvey wrote:

> Im just messing with some copy protected game. That why.
> Ghislain
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De
> la part de Arthur Flexser
> Envoyé : January-09-08 1:23 PM
> À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Objet : Re: [Coco] Coco drives single and double side question.
> 
> 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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