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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
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Subject: CoCo3, Disto Controller, OS-9
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 15:49:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 15:49:32 1987
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Summary: Need replacement for WD-1773 chip


     I just received my Disto Super Controller aaannnd, I wish I could say
everything about it is wonderful, but it isn't.  A minor annoyance is that
you'll have to cut a notch in the drive side edgecard to fit the block that
Tandy now puts in the connectors for polarity protection.  A more important
problem is that the WD-1773 chip doesn't seem to read/write single density.
I couldn't get it to read an OS-9 Standard Format disk.  Does anybody know
of a chip replacement that will work which will give me back the single
density capabilities?

     This makes 2 controllers which won't work with OS-9 Standard Format.
The FD-501 controller (the new short controller from the Shack) and the Disto.
Does anybody know if any of the other 2nd source controllers still handle
OS-9 Standard Format?  The controllers that are available are the J & M
controllers and the Hard Drive Associates controllers.  Are there any others?

Cheers! -- Jim O.