[Coco] Floppy drives

[Mike Pepe]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Castello
> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:42 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Floppy drives
> 
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:42:31 -0400, "Bill" <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:
> 
> >Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever heard of running TWO dual FD-
> 500
> >drives on the same system (using an MPI?)
> 
> You'd have to remove the rom in one, change it's base address and then
> set up a driver to work with it in OS9.
> 
> If you only want to use them as single sided drives, use a four drive
> floppy cable on one controller.
> 

Actually, you don't need to do any mods to make that work with an MPI.
The MPI selects which cart gets the I/O select and ROM select.

You would need a different OS9 device descriptor that understands the
MPI slot changes necessary though. This may have already been done.