[Coco] Max number of floppy drives with DOS

tim lindner tlindner at macmess.org
Mon May 17 10:02:27 EDT 2021


On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 6:14 AM Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Not that there is any practical reason to do it, but has anyone
> ever tried modifying a disk controller to run at a different address
> like was done to the serial port cartridge so that you could, with
> a modified version of DOS, have more than 3/4 disk drives?

It is not necessary to reassign addresses to use more than a single
disk controller.

The MPI is designed to separate the disk controllers (or other SCS
based devices) to their own slot.

I don't think anyone has written a disk driver to take advantage of this.

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