[Coco] HBD-DOS FD Controller

[Robert Gault]

What is the rest of your hardware? Is it a CoCo3, 2, or 1? Can you create real disks from .dsk images and if not, do you have a method for transferring programs from a PC to your CoCo? 
To fix your problem without making a cart with an eprom, you will at least need to connect your CoCo to your PC with a cassette cable to transfer files that way. With a CoCo1 or 2, a program could put them into an all RAM mode where HDBDOS for Drivewire could be loaded and maybe work.

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  On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:55 PM, rcrislip<rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:   On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:54:50 -0500
David Ladd via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 11:09 PM rcrislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All
> >
> > I could really use a HDB-DOS FD controller. Mine went the way of the
> > world. Pretty sure I need it for Drive Wire. IF any are for sale,
> > I'd love to buy one. TIA
> >  
> 
> 1) What is the controller doing or not doing?
> 
> 2) Do you use it for accessing real floppy drives?
> 2)a) If you do you can probably build your own:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/165475769359
> or assembled:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/154990584792
> 
> 
> 3) Do you use it for accessing DriveWire only?
> 3)a) If you use it for DriveWire only you can just get a ROM cart
> with a copy of the specific version HDBDOS you were using to access
> DriveWire.
> 
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I get IO Error messages when DIR'ing the FDDs. Unable to access DW.
Have a 510FDC with plain jane RSDOS and can access the FDDs, but not
DW. Need HBD-DOS for that. The controller I was using was a DISTO II
controller.

Cheers

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