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

[Mark Marlette]

At 10:48 PM 12/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:

HDB-DOS 1.1 supports IDE-LBA and CHS modes. The configuration wizard makes 
it all EASY! Master/Slave support, etc. Disto, Kenton, Glenside, missing a 
few i"m sure and TC^3 devices supported.

mark


>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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>>>Cruisen                                                         _|_
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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.
>
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