[Coco] Issues with 26-3022 interface

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

ops sorry:

the line 10 shoud be:

10 FOR T = 0 TO 34

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> try this:
>
> 0 CLEAR 1000
> 10 FOR T = 0 TO 35
> 20 FOR S = 1 TO 18
> 30 DSKI$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
> 40 DSKO$ 0,T,S,A$,B$
> 50 NEXT S
> 60 NEXT T
>
> This will read every rsdos sector and rewrite it back.
>
> Try saving some basic program on it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Em 12/02/2013 11:56, Mark Marlette escreveu:
>>
>>> Daniel,
>>>
>>> This HD mod was created by Robert Brose of our computer club many years
>>> ago.
>>>
>>> I have done this mod, it works. I also added a line from the controller
>>> to the drive to automatically switch the transfer rate clock based upon the
>>> sensors in the drive rather than just the descriptor.
>>>
>>> With that said...this is NO easy mod. Almost easier making a new
>>> controller.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, for what I saw from the document that Harry sent, it will be no easy
>> task.
>>
>>
>>> It requires a the MB8877A(??) memory loss ATM upgrade and then there was
>>> also a speed issue running at 1.78MHZ as well. A chip that needed
>>> replacing. Was pinged this past weekend on this at Cloud-9 and haven't had
>>> the chance to look up my work in my project documentation book. I have it.
>>>
>>> The file was up on RTSI for a long time. ????
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>> http://www.cloud9tech.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Ou of curiosity, I just attached today a 3 1/2 1.44M drive to the Coco
>> and it worked flawlessly! It formated the disk (a HD disk with the role
>> closed to make the drive understand it as 720Kb disk) and SAVEd and LOADed
>> some programs. No errors ocurred during the format process!
>> How can I check the disk to see if it was formated properly ?
>>
>> This drive is a Mitsumi D359M3D and was already configured to DS0,
>> because I used it before with one of my MSX machines.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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