[Coco] reliable CoCo floppy disk writing on PCs

[Roger Taylor]

At 10:28 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
>Roger Taylor wrote:
>
>>I just set up a spare Win98SE PC from scratch mainly for 
>>experimenting with what works best for writing CoCo disks from a PC.
>>I'm trying to round up some group feedback on your success level 
>>with writing CoCo BASIC and OS-9 floppies from Windows.
>>If you've had almost perfect results and the disks read back on the 
>>CoCo without the CoCo really knowing any difference, please let me 
>>know what tools you use, the BIOS setting for the 3.5" or 5.25" 
>>drive doing the writing, and any other details.
>>Thanks
>
>With Win98SE, a 3.5" drive, and nothing done to the BIOS other than 
>indicating the presence of a floppy drive, PORT.EXE and DSKINI.EXE 
>worked just fine. Any problems usually can be solved by formatting 
>the disk on the PC rather than the Coco.
>
>With WinXP, a 3.5" drive, and nothing special in the BIOS, OmniFlop 
>(stand alone) and fdrawcmd.sys plus VCC work well. Again problems 
>usually are resolved by formatting on the PC.
>
>Both the above have a normal floppy ribbon on the Coco with a 3.5" 
>drive as drive #1 mounted in a full height case and a 5.25" drive as #0.
>
>--


I wasn''t aware that VCC handled reading from the PC's floppy 
drives.  I don't see that option anywhere, in the past 3 versions 
I've had up to 1.40.  ?