[Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

[Bill]

That's what I have, 1.2Mb 5 1/4" drives. And I'm using 360K floppies. But I
cannot get them to format using the Windows XP format command.

What do I use to format them for PC/Coco use?

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Chad H
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 11:40 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Read Coco floppies in my PC

This thread is confusing....  I have 2 PC's with 1.2mb floppies and they
always fornat/read 360k floppies perfectly....and the CoCo DSKINI/RETRIEVE
work great, no need to mess with jumpers IF they are in a PC...I guess you
would if trying to use them in a CoCo drive enclosure.

Also, formatting 1.2mb disks on a pc as 360k or for CoCo DSKINI, etc is not
good either.... the drive isn't the problem, its tje media....use 360k disks
for standard CoCo images.

gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

>On Friday, March 30, 2012 11:05:28 PM Bill did opine:
>
>> The drives I just got are 1.2Mb, and I have tried several times to
>> format a 360K disk, but for some reason it won't let me. I type in the
>> command format b: /f:360 (which SHOULD work), but it gives me an error
>> message.
>> 
>> Has ANYONE been successful formatting a 360K disk in XP with a  1.2Mb
>> drive?
>> 
>> Thanks
>
>The drive is running too fast at 360 revs Bill, and the end of the track is

>over writing the beginning of the track, hence the errors.
>
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