[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

[Arthur Flexser]

You might try POKE&HFF7F,&H23 to tell the Multipak that the ROM is in Slot
3 but the floppy controller is in Slot 4, and see if you can access the
floppy controller then.  It certainly sounds like a slot selection problem.

Art

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 11, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > In that case, RGBDOS would need to know which slot to find the disk
> > controller in. Is slot 4 the one that the manual says the controller must
> > reside in?  Or is there something in RGBDOS that must be configured to
> tell
> > it which slot to look for the controller in?
>
> The manual says you can have the ROM in the FD controller or the KenTon
> controller, but you have to move the MPI slot to wherever the ROM is.
>
> I used it like that for many years. But after many years in storage, the
> MPI, floppy or KenTon could be having issues. NitrOS-9 definitely has
> issues (or so it seems) with the LR/KT SCSI drivers. They tend to lock up
> often on me, while RGB-DOS seems content to format 256 HD “drives” with no
> issues.
>
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