[Coco] Which do you prefer and why? CoCo 1/2/3

[Bill Pierce]

Actually, 5.25 HD drives CAN be used with the Coco. But as far as I know, only in OS9/NitrOS9. The driver double steps (reads/writes every other track), so it reads the drive as a 80trk, 720k drive (just like a 3.5 720k). BUT, these disks are NOT usable in any other drive (or system), only the HD drive.
I have such a beast and it works well (or it did, haven't fired up real drives in 5 years). THIS setup is where the "dns=3" is used... for high density drives (this has been discussed to death, but Gene RULEZ on drives).

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry.Nelson <Barry.Nelson at amobiledevice.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 6:04 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Which do you prefer and why? CoCo 1/2/3

> Michael Christopher Robinson michael at robinson-west.com> Wed Apr 26 11:13:38 EDT 2017> > Can the coco 3 use a 3.5" high density floppy drive?> How about a 5.25" high density floppy drive?First, you might want to consider getting a CoCo SDC rather than a Floppy. Floppies are getting harder to get blanks for and one SD card can store a lot of floppy images plus the SDC is fully compatible with all the games like Gaunlet II. That said, 3.5 inch floppies work fine in low density mode. To force low density mode you can either use 720k floppy disks, use 1.44mb floppies and cover up or fill in the 1.44 detector hole, or disable the 1.44 detector on the drive. High density 5.25 inch drives are much more problematic but some can be made to work in 720k quad density mode. Another option is a Gotek USB drive emulator with the Hxc2001 firmware.-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco