[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[Torsten Dittel]

Robert Gault schrieb:

> Both omniflop.sys and fdrawcmd.sys can have problems reading disks 

> formatted on a Coco. It is not the sector data or overall structure that 

> is the problem but the low level format.


Actually the PC floppy controller is "sleeping" for a period of time 
after the index hole passes by. The track header of a CoCo formatted 
disk is quite short, so the floppy controller sometimes misses the 
sector header of sector 0. I could improve my results of reading CoCo 
formatted disks with a CoCo drive connected to the PC by playing around 
with the drive's speed while repeatedly reading sector 0 (in theory just 
slowing it down, although I darkly remember, I couldn't really proove that).

Regards,
Torsten