[Coco] CoCo Disk Drives

[Brian Blake]

Robert will correct me if I'm wrong, but, when issue the drive off command,
it disables the DW access to floppies 0-4. Floppies 5 to 255 should still
be available to DriveWire.

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On Mar 12, 2015 11:05 PM, "Michael Brant" <brant.michael.l at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert
>  thanks, much, when I use Drive off 1, I can access my physical floppies
> but do not seem to be able to use drivewire .dsk's.  I am using Drivewire 3
> on a Mac Pro.  I don't know if that makes a difference. but if I type drive
> on I am able to access drivewire with 0-3 numbers again.  I must be missing
> something.
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Michael Brant wrote:
> >
> >> I recently acquired  a set of drives for my CoCo 3.  I am using a FD502
> >> Controller.
> >>
> >> I seem to be getting no response from either drive 0 or drive 1.  I have
> >> an
> >> HDB-DOS Rom in my FD502 controller.  I am able to use Drivewire 3 to
> >> connect to my Mac Pro.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on the best way to test this out?  I tried the DIR command and
> >> get error messages, I had disks in both drives just to be certain they
> >> weren't cross wired.
> >>
> >> If one has two physical drives and drivewire, which order do the drive
> >> appear to the CoCo 3.
> >> would drives 0 and 1 be the physical drives and then drives 2, 3, 4 and
> 5
> >> be the drivewire drives?
> >>
> >>
> > HDBDOS by default will cold start with all the drives as hard drives or
> > through the serial port, ie. Drivewire. You must issue the command DRIVE
> > OFF, which will make the first 4 drive floppies; 0-3.
> > As you have two floppies, you can use DRIVE OFF 1 so that drives 0-1 will
> > be floppies and drives 2-255 will be via Drivewire.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
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