[Coco] Drive issue

[Daniel Campos]

I just borrowed an old Tandy drive with Juan and tomorrow will test it.
I think that will solve the issue.

Daniel

On 14/03/2015 15:15, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> Or, perhaps you could transfer it to the CoCoSDC directly by this method
> all in one step.
>
> Art
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Well, I suppose you could do it in two steps.  As far as your drive is
>> concerned, the data is all there, just on the "wrong" tracks.  That is, the
>> drive finds track 0 on track 0, but track 1 data is on track 2, track 2
>> data is on track 4, etc.
>>
>> Knowing that, you could write a Basic or ML program to transfer the data,
>> sector by sector, to another disk, or (preferably) to a Ramdisk, and
>> then copy the files from there to your CoCoSDC.
>>
>>
>> Art
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ADOS are of no avail to me. I need a solution that works on the SDC-DOS,
>>> because I need to dump them into the CoCoSDC.
>>> I think I will need to use my bulky CP-450 to read them. My MPI doesn't
>>> liked much the CP-450 last time when I plugged the two together. But that
>>> is another problem...
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On 13/03/2015 23:43, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Extended ADOS-3 has a command for double-stepping for this purpose.
>>>> You'd
>>>> have to burn an ADOS-3/Extended ADOS-3 EPROM to access this feature,
>>>> though.
>>>>
>>>> Art
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   You will need to be able to double step the drives to read a 48tpi disk
>>>>> in
>>>>> a 96tpi drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think you can do that under RS-DOS. I don't know about
>>>>> OS-9/NitrOS-9.
>>>>>
>>>>> -[ Al ]-
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Campos
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeking counsel with the disk drive masters here. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to dump some very very old disks that I grabed with a friend
>>>>> to my CoCoSDC, but I think I have a problem in my hands...
>>>>> I have a double drive unit that has two TEAC FD-55FV-13-U drives. These
>>>>> appear to be 720Kb drives (the fabled DSQD drives). I can DSKINI
>>>>> perfectly and SAVE and LOAD any DD disks on them BUT I can not read any
>>>>> disk originally created on a 180Kb drive.
>>>>> There is any way I can make these drives read correctly the disks
>>>>> created on an original CoCo drive ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>
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