Coco FDC hacks (was: Ebay reaches new low

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Nov 9 18:27:10 1999

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> P.S. To keep this on-topic, does anyone have instructions on the hack to
> convert the above-mentioned floppy controller to be able to handle 3.5" HD
> floppy drives? I'd *love* to have a 1.44Meg floppy formatted under OS/9...
> :-) Also, is there any way (without reconstructing the 6 million dollar
> man...) to get two floppy controllers online using the MultiPak?

My recollection was that there were several different vartieties. Each
one will have slightly different issues.

To add 3.5" HD floppies, you will need to provide a different clock, way
to change it back and forth, and support for one more signal to the drive.

Why do you want to run more than one FDC? If it is to run 4 instead of 2
drives, you can do that with minor hardware and software hacks to a
controller.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 18:27:10 GMT

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