[Coco] STATUS - Re: Resurrecting a CoCo (26-3001) with a 26-3029 FDC.

[Ryan Pritchard]

Hi Benoit,

I had discovered that information this morning too.  I suspected as much
because the drive only went to the middle of the opening on the diskette.
The cool thing is I have the Teac documentation for this drive.   I found it
in one of the Gimix binders I have.  There is actually a jumper to set the
drive to 48tpi mode.  I doubt I will care about that ability in my
situation.  At least not until I get another FDD working on the CoCo.  I
don't plan on canibalizing the Gimix machines, this was a spare drive in
with my stuff.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Benoit Bleau <benbleau at gmail.com> wrote:


> Ryan Pritchard wrote:

>

>> I have success with formatting a diskette with the CoCo.

>>

>> This confirms my cable and drive controller are working correctly.  I

>> lucked out and found what looks to have been a never used Teac FD-55F-03-U

>> in with the two Gimix systems I had dug out of storage in my moms basement

>> ;).

>>

>> Ran DSKINI1 and the drive chugged away, to the middle of the opening on

>> the diskette.  Head reset back to track 0 and then verified the format.

>>

>>

> Ryan,

> The FD-55F-03-U are 96tpi drives, or better know as double-sided 80 track

> drives.  You will be able to use them with an unmodified coco controller,

> but won't be able to read/write standard 48tpi drives ( the regular 35 or 40

> tracks)

>

> With Nitros9 or OS9 you can use the full capacity of the drives by

> modifying the device descriptors.

>

> -Benoit

>

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