[Coco] Issues with 26-3022 interface

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Juan Castro wrote:

> Your floppies have been formatted with 256 byte sectors. Each track has 18
> sectors of 256 bytes instead of 9 sectors of 512 bytes like in a 720KB PC
> disk. You'll need to (a) get a PC with a FDC old enough to read that, and
> (b) get some DOS software that can program the FDC and read/write a 256
> byte formatted disk. That will be a challenge. Anyone here has successfully
> done that?

There is at least one free utility out there that can read and write Coco 
diskette images under DOS.  Beyond that, Linux can handle this if your 
controller hardware is capable.



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