[Coco] Copying CoCo diskettes to PC

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> 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 ?

I can just about guarantee that none of the USB devices or adapters can 
handle anything other than the "usual" 512-byte/sector PC formats.



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