[Coco] Use Coco and DriveWire to Create TRS-80 Disks?

[Al Hartman]

It turned out that my 486 had a floppy controller that could write FM. I 
used the TESTFDC program on the Imagedisk site to confirm this.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Johann Klasek

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:55:11AM -0600, Rick Thornquist wrote:
[..]
> 3. I do have an old 486 with a 5.25 inch drive, and I've tried many
> programs to write a TRS-80 disk, including emulators, but none have
> worked.  I hadn't heard of Imagedisk, though.  I tried it and,
> unfortunately, it didn't work.  It might be because it's a 1.2MB drive,
> though some of the programs do say they can work with those kind of
> drives.  I've just dug out an old 360KB drive and will try that instead -
> we'll see if that works.
[..]

Just an "old" system is generally not enough. I think the capability to do
read/write FM is important. You need a proper floppy controller on that PC
hardware - not easy to accomplish.

See http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80faq.html#[15]

May some information could be useful from my project to read
"old" OS-9 disks (just the first track was FM recorded) ... just
for reference read on at
http://jk.kom.tuwien.ac.at/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?OS-9DiskRead

Johann


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