[Coco] Connect CoCo Floppy drive to Windows PC

[John Donaldson]

Fedor,
 Why are trying to use the IDE cabel to access a 5.25 floppy. Almost all 
motherboards have a Floppy controller and port. Just use a floppy cable 
and hook it up to the 5.25 floppy. I have a 486 machine with both a 3" 
and a 5.25 hooked that way.

John Donaldson


Fedor Steeman wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I have been getting closer to the aforementioned "quest" to connect a CoCo
>5,25" floppy drive to a pc. I have now selected a drive that apparantly can
>be switched between 40 or 80 tracks BTW, so now comes the next question:
>
>How to connect a modern IDE cable connecter to this old drive? I have no
>experience with the "crimping" that I have read about, but it seems tricky.
>What is needed for this? I suppose I need to clip off the original IDE
>connector and then "crimp" and older one on to it. Would I need to twist any
>wires? Or are there any adapters available?
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>Cheers,
>Fedor
>
>2008/10/5 Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
>
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>>On 10/5/08, Fedor Steeman wrote:
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>>>The drives are jumperable and they look like they could be used for
>>>(earlier) PCs as well, so I have my hopes up...
>>>
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>>>
>>If you can configure the drive to respond as Drive 1 (not 0) on the
>>CoCo, then it will likely work on the PC in that configuration.
>>Setting a jumper to enable READY may also be required.
>>
>>Go to <http://www.nitros9.org/howto.html#dsk> and use the links there
>>to download the fdrawcmd.sys driver and the CoCoDisk utility. These
>>will allow you to access coco floppies on a Windows XP machine.
>>
>>Darren
>>
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