[Coco] RSDOS....

[Robert Gault]

Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Am I right in assuming that the DSKINI command in RSDOS can only format single sided 35 track disks?
> I ask because DSKINIT in Dragondos can format both 40 / 80 track disks and single / double sided.
> But my impression was that RSDOS only supported single sided 35 tracks, even if the drive and
> controller was double sided and > 40 tracks.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Phill.
>

That is correct. The Color computer did not directly handle double sided disks until OS-9 was 
released and you installed the correct drive descriptors.

Looks like you will just have to patch your DOS so that D1 and D3 are the second sides of your disks.

Robert