[Coco] Drivewire, NitrOS9, and floppy drives

[Willard Goosey]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:58:44AM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> Unless someone has OS9 formatted disks which are set up as a separate disk 
> (such as the Rainbow OS9 on disk), accessing the back side of a disk is not 
> really useful.

Those were flippies, weren't they?
> 
> It's much more useful to use the entire disk as a single unit, both the 
> lower and upper heads of the drive.

I suppose that might be useful to access both sides of a double-sided
DECB disk written with one of the DOS patches, but other than that, I
gotta agree.

Willard
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