[Coco] question about 3.5 inch floppies

[Derek]

I put in a 1.44MB 3.5" Drive inline with my FD-501 5.25" drive and I am able to use 1.44MB disks just fine. I dont get 1.44MB storage but when I do a dskini on the 1.44Mb Disks they work fine and have for me for the past 2 years or so. I actually also use Darren's disk utility for XP and format them for 80 tracks and also write disk images to them directly and never had a problem.




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--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Stephen Adolph <twospruces at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Stephen Adolph <twospruces at gmail.com>
Subject: [Coco] question about 3.5 inch floppies
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 5:47 AM

Hi,

Another dumb question-

A 3.5 inch drive will work like a 720k drive simply by placing a DD
(720k) disk into the drive, right?

So, to use a 3.5 inch floppy with Nirtos-9, one merely needs to have
it be plugged in, and make sure to use 720k floppies.   The disk drive
will operate correctly. (?)

Interestingly, I have 3 different versions of the same Panasonicn
JU-257.  Only one of them can be selected to be drive 0 or 1.

I think I have read that, in the coco, you want to use hard drive
selects...no twisted cables.

thanks, Steve

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