[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

[David Ladd]

Allen,

Yes it does seem to be hard to keep track of this stuff over the years when
you don't mess with it every day.

Hopefully though all the information people have given you can help you get
your system working again. :D

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 14, 2017, at 1:26 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> This makes sense. This means that, at some point, I either had a ROM in
> the KenTon, or replaced the ROM in my floppy controller. I have no idea how
> I had it all working when I copied all my floppies a year or so back :)
>
> Thanks, all.
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