[Coco] Disk drive question

Wayne Campbell asa.rand at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 13:13:24 EST 2012


> On another note, are there any special jumper settings needed to use a 
> Coco 5.25 drive on a PC? The 3 drives I have are a 5.25 40trk DS (D0), 
> 5.25 80trk DS (D2) and 3.5 80trk DS (D1). I do have a couple of old 3.5" 
> 1.4meg drives that came with PCs. The drive is set for drive 0 on the 
> Coco.

This may be your problem. As I recall, a 80-track disk only allows you to 
use 3 drive descriptors. When I had my CoCo3 I had 2 40-trk 5.25s and 1 
80-trk 3.5. I'm not certain, but trying to use 2 80-trk drives may be what 
is causing your problem. Someone who knows more than I can say for sure.

Wayne




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