[Coco] double-sided floppy setup in OS-9

[mike delyea]

If you can get a copy of dmode you can use it to set your drives as
double sided 40 track drives (I'd have to look it up) and then
"cobbler" a new boot disk.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if someone can get me started or point me in the right
> direction on this.  I've been predominately a DECB user but have had OS-9
> for a long time, just never really gotten into it.  I would like start
> learning more about it but one thing bugging me is my floppy drive access.
> Currently I have 2 x 5.25 Double sided 5.25 floppies in my FD-502 enclosure.
> I'm using modified DECB EPROM to access them as 0,1 for top drive and 2,3
> for bottom drive.  When I load OS-9, it exhibits the same problem as DECB
> used to, can only seem to access one side of one drive.  I've heard there is
> some sort of device descriptor files or something that needs set but I have
> no idea how to go about doing it.
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