#: 12257 S1/General Interest
    15-Sep-91  21:28:36
Sb: #12227-#xym or xfr?
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: James Jones 76257,562 (X)

James (and others...), I've been following this and other threads on using
various com programs to transfer files between the coco and the mm1 -- I don't
get it! Why not just get a disk drive which is compatible with the coco and the
mm1 and exchange disks. I stuck a 80 track drive in my mm1 the day I got it and
have been flipping disks back and forth ever since. It's just a matter of
setting up a descriptor. For coco disks you have to set typ=20, soffs=1,
sct=12, tos=12, cyl=50. The rest stays the same as for a HD mm1 disk.

The only problem I've had with the mm1 disk driver is that it will not format a
standard format (track 0 single density) and it will not double step for a 40
track disk in an 80 track drive. BTW, it will read/write single density--I hope
someone is working on this.

Hope this helps.

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