[Coco] More Burke & Burke Coco XT and Hyper I/O Help!

Roger Taylor rtaylor at bayou.com
Tue Nov 4 16:20:00 EST 2003


At 04:12 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello again fellow Coconuts!
>
>
>Thanks for the help Roger,  The command is OPEN DRIVE(0-3), "/H0/(A-Z)".  I
>got it by trial and error.  My problem now is that I am getting some I/O
>errors on some of the virtual drives.  I would like to try to reformat my
>drive before trying to replace it.  The Coco XT book says to run XTFMT.BAS
>on the Coco XT disk to low level format the ST-225 Hard Drive.  The only
>problem is my Coco XT floppy disk is also unreadable giving me read errors!!
>Then I need to run HDFMT.BAS and MSATOOL.BAS on the Hyper IO disk.  I am
>having some read error problems with the Hyper I-O disk too!  Can any of you
>send me a .DSK image of the Coco XT 2.0 disk, and the Hyper I-O 2.6A disk?
>I tried writing to Chris Burke, but got no answer.
>
>Please help me get my Coco Hard Drive system back up and running!
>
>Hank Walther

I'll look in my stash.  I think I sold the XT disk, but I'm sure I've got 
Hyper IO somewhere.





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