[Coco] drive motors

[Robert Hermanek]

Wasn't really concentrating on emulator to start, but as the DD media 
seems hard to find, maybe I should be.  A search just yielded one I've 
never seen before (for commercial applications... ?) might have to 
"request a quote" just to see what it costs:

http://www.datex-dsm.com/all-about-the-dtx200.html

-RobertH

On 7/13/2013 10:57 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Generally since all 3.5" drives are made pc compatible, all of them 
> are actually addressed as drive 1 AT THE DRIVE. So if you have a full 
> teeth cable, it should function on either plug of a twisted pc cable, 
> with the drive on the end connector being drive 0, its after the cable 
> twist that translates the address. Going this route means you need to 
> remove the pc's IDC connector on the controller end and replace it 
> with a 34 pin card edge. DD disks are a must as the coco cannot do the 
> data rate required for an HD disk, and if the HD hole is covered, then 
> the drive turns down the write current to DD specs, and may or may not 
> complete the formatting operation. Data written to an HD disk with the 
> hole taped over generally has a very short lifetime, fading rapidly 
> into unreadability.