[Coco] Copying CoCo diskettes to PC

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Oct 29 20:56:32 EDT 2013


Le 2013-10-29 à 20:43:00, Steven Hirsch a écrit :

> I think you are blaming the wrong piece of hardware.  It's more likely 
> that the floppy controller is unable to properly handle 256 byte 
> sectors. I have several machines that can reliably read and write CoCo 
> diskettes under Linux and a few that cannot.

That's very much possible and makes sense. But I only have two floppy 
controllers, both embedded in motherboards, and I have trouble with the 
other motherboard at the moment. Do you know any model(s) of USB floppy 
controller (and/or whole USB floppy drive) that do work with 256-byte 
sectors ?

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