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From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
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Subject: Re: TRS-80 Model I Disk Drive
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Date: 5 Sep 90 23:48:12 GMT
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In article <1370@urbana.mcd.mot.com> qbarnes@urbana.mcd.mot.com
(Quentin Barnes) writes:
>Does anyone recall how to correctly connect a double sided 5.25" drive
>to a Model I?
>I have NEWDOS/80 2.0 and a single-sided drive as drive 0.
>And yes, I still use it.

Back in my Model I days (with the same DOS), my 2-sided drives were confi-
gured to respond as 2 drives, one to each side of the disk. I don't recall
how the drive was diddled to make it do that, but the first drive thought it
was 0 and 1; the second thought it was 2 and 3.

Was that a nuisance? Of course! But you see, I didn't know it! Up 'till then,
I'd been using the old RS tape drive for file storage. You talk nuisance....


Best o' luck.

						Z-80 FOREVER,
							d


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   Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu