[Coco] Primer on building multiple floppy drive systems?

[piperfox74]

Woah! Confirmed! Quite obviously, I *never* knew that!

Thank you!

Christopher

> On Dec 11, 2016, at 17:43, Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:27:02 -0500
> piperfox74 <piperfox74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey folks!
>> 
>> I have two Chinon FZ-502 floppy drives. These should be DSDD 360K
>> drives. They have jumpers for drive select and termination. If I want
>> to use both for a CoCo, what’s the correct DS and Termination
>> settings, and in what order on the drives?
>> 
>> At the moment, I’m a bit befuddled, as the way I have these
>> configured, DECB correctly sees a Drive 0 and a Drive 1, and a DIR
>> and DIR 1 correctly read the drives and disks I suspect they should.
>> However, when I type DOS, what I’d consider Drive 1 tries to read a
>> disk instead of Drive 0. I suspect I’ve just got something
>> misconfigured, but I can’t find any documentation on the right way to
>> build a dual-drive CoCo setup.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Christopher
>> 
>> 
> 
> (other) Christopher:
> 
>    If you did the commands in that order ( 'DIR' 'DIR 1' and 'DOS' )
> that is the correct response.
> 
>    If you ( 'DIR 1' 'DIR' and 'DOS' ) the dos command will run from
> drive 0. (At least, the stock DECB) DOS command accesses the last used
> drive.
> 
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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