[Coco] Re: RGB-DOS & SCSI Hard Drives

[Robert Gault]

Mark Marlette wrote:

> At 02:13 PM 12/18/2003 -0300, you wrote:
> 
> Richard,
> 
> What I meant was the difference between RGB-DOS and HDB-DOS. Sorry for 
> the confusion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> Cloud-9
> 
>> Hello Mark
>>
>> Are you saying that the MAC drives are better?
>>
>> On 12/18/03, Mark Marlette wrote:
>> > At 02:11 PM 12/17/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>> >
>> > Chris,
>> >
>> > Can't speak for the RGB-DOS exactly. I can tell that it was feature
>> > lacking, things that were partially implemented when we acquired it. AS
>> > far as the format. ?? HDB-DOS works and Boisy has put a lot of work 
>> into
>> > this package..... I use MAC drives all the time. Night and day 
>> difference
>> > between the two. Supports the Ken-ton too.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Well guys, I got my lot of lower sized SCSI hard drives in. They range
>> >> from 40MB and up. I've tried all the 40MB and 80MB hard drives with 
>> the
>> >> Ken-Ton and success, when I discovered that I needed to disable the
>> >> parity, they would work and be detected. But whenever I try to run the
>> >> format program to format the hard drive, I get an error message after
>> >> entering in all the technical information (and I gather this info from
>> >> hd-utils in turn which reads it from the hd itself). I gives an IO 
>> error
>> >> when it tries to format any of them and when I try the re-initialize
>> >> drive option in HD-Utils it gives a different error message 
>> everytime I
>> >> try a different drive. These were all at one time drives in old 
>> Apple MAC
>> >> machines. Would this have anything to do with it?
>> >>
>> >> -Chris
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >
>> >
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> 
> 
> 
RGBDOS and HDBDOS are very similar. RGBDOS was sold along with the 
Ken-Ton scsi interface. HDBDOS is a Cloud-9 enhanced version of RGBDOS.