[Coco] Status update and your input on the Floppy Disk Controller emulator for the CoCo

[Steve Bjork]

I could not remember any other drive selects that were widely used other 
than the standard Tandy setup and drive 4 as the head selected.

Thanks Gene.  Your input is always welcome.

Steve

On 6/1/2011 4:05 PM, gene heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 06:59:11 PM Steve Bjork did opine:
>> The next item is the drive select lines. The standard Tandy setup uses 4
>> drive select lines to select drives 0 to 3. There was also a
>> semi-standard of using drive 4 select line as the head select line for
>> double sided drives. Are there any other configurations for the Drive
>> Select lines than these two?
>>
>> Thank you for your input,
>>
>> Steve Bjork
> There could be others Steve, but those two setups will cover well over
> 99.99% of all the coco hardware.  I don't think I'd give it a huge amount
> of attention, nor research unless someone pops up and says 'I have 3 copies
> of so-and-so that actually work this way' followed by how their version
> works.
>
> 4!=15 variations, but the two you quoted are the only ones that make sense.
>