[Coco] HD floppy controller update: success!
Chuck Youse
cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Sat Jul 5 11:14:39 EDT 2008
So after working pretty much dawn till dusk yesterday, and a couple more
hours this morning, I've proven that the CoCo 3 at 1.78MHz can indeed
read high-density floppies with the 82077AA-1! No HALT required! I've
successfully read sectors from all parts of a PC-formatted disk (and
verified the data).
Of course, for the Coco 256-byte sectors are MUCH preferred; ideally 36
256-byte sectors per track. Has anyone ever heard of such a format? I
could use some gap length hints. Also, does anyone know how I might
format such a disk under Linux? setfdprm/fdformat doesn't seem to do
the trick (fdformat ignores the setfdprm parameters... dumb)
C.
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