[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

[Arthur Flexser]

Also, of course, clean the oxidation off the floppy controller's edge
connectors, if you haven't already done so!

Art

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:35 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>                 — A
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