[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

[David Ladd]

Allen,

Yes this is actually normal. With the B&B MFM setup I had, Kenton, and
SuperIDE I always put the main ROM image into a EPROM chip and had that in
the floppy controller and always had the MPI set for slot 4.

As a few people have posted in reply you can do a POKE to set the MPI to
set the hardware slot to 4, but if you hit the reset button that will cause
the MPI to reset the hardware control back to the slot that the switch is
set to.  In most cases though the POKE in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file will work
fine except in cases where you have to use the reset button.

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On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> I have a floppy controller in MPI slot 4 and a KenTon with RGB-DOS ROM in
> slot 3.
>
> With MPI set to 3, I boot and get RGB-DOS. But, typing DRIVE OFF does not
> access the physical floppy drive. It just hangs and times out with an IO
> ERROR.
>
> Does this sound familiar?
>
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