[Coco] 3.5" Floppies on my Coco 3!

[Blake Patterson]

Got a photo of the setup? Would like to see.

bp

On Saturday, April 6, 2013, Daniel Campos wrote:

> I also using a 1.44HD Drive and no problems detected with any disks so far.
> But I think if using HD media with an HD Drive (my current config) I will
> have no problems. I think problems occurs most if you are using old 720Kb
> drives with HD Media...
>
> The only problem I get is that my Color64 can not load OS9 L1 yet. The
> same config (using the same ROMs) on the XROAR, works like a charm.
>
> Daniel
>
> Em 06/04/2013 13:32, Michael Graham escreveu:
>
>> I must have unusually good luck, then, as I've been using 1.44MB disks
>> with the hole covered as 720KB disks for a few years now, and I generally
>> don't have any problem reading the disks back, even a few weeks after I've
>> written them. I guess I haven't really tested any longer than that, though,
>> as I usually think of something different I'd like to put on the disks, so
>> I reformat and write new content to the disks.
>>
>> Although, to be fair, I am using exclusively 1.44MB drives in 720KB mode
>> to handle the disks, and I know they won't read back on a real 720KB drive
>> (I did actually try that once).
>>
>> --Michael
>>
>> On 04/06/2013 05:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday 06 April 2013 06:08:58 Kip Koon did opine:
>>>
>>>  Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I communicated with my very first two 3.5" floppy drives on my Coco 3
>>>> using Disto's Super Controller tonight!  I put HDBDOS 1.4 DW4 in the
>>>> super controller.  It also has the 80x24 Composite video output
>>>> daughter board with the mono sound output, an RTC and a Centronics
>>>> Parallel port all on the daughter board for those that don't know what
>>>> a Disto Super Controller is.
>>>>
>>>> I successfully formatted two real 720KB 3.5" disks and one 1.44MB disk
>>>> with the capacity hole covered to make it look like a 720KB disk.
>>>>
>>>>  That won't usually last, sometimes not even an hour.  The recording is
>>> too
>>> weak for the magnetic coating of a HD disk and will fade.
>>>
>>
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