[Coco] Disk Controllers for the Dragon...

[Barry Nelson]

Most 3.5" drives will work fine with the CoCo as 720K drives. Either use 720k floppy disks that do not have the 1.44m sensing hole in the corner or use 1.44m disks and cover the hole or disable the sensor for 1.44m disks on the drive so the drive is always in 720k mode. I have used a few of them with no issues on my CoCo and other systems although now I have no use for the 3.5" drives since any original vintage floppies that I might need to image will most likely be 5 1/4, and my CoCoSDC is much easier to use than a 3.5" floppy.

> Al Hartman alhartman6 at optonline.net 
> Mon Oct 26 14:22:18 EDT 2015
> 
> That sounds great!
> 
> Any chance you can include high density drive support?
> 
> I'd bet that the NitrOS9 folks would love to be able to use easily bought 
> 3.5" HD drives on their Cocos. I don't know what could be done to support 
> them in DECB, but even being able to use a 1.44mb drive as a 720k drive in 
> DECB would be OK.
> 
> -[ Al ]-