[Coco] floppy controller & L1

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	I have a driver disk. There are no L1 drivers. Only L2. Also have some
doc-
umentation. But not enough technical detail to write a driver.

					kevin
KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> 

> >   Kevin Diggs <kevdig at hypersurf.com> wrote:

> >  >Hi,

> >  >    I have a Sardis Technology Dual mode controller. Isn't

> >  >this one of those "no halt"

> >  >beasties? Anyone know where I can find an OS9 L1 driver?

> 

> I still use on on my Coco3 setup, mostly for OS-9.   I don't recall whether I

> had it running on OS-9 Level 1, or didn't get it till I had Level 2.  But I'm

> sure that *somewhere* I have the original distro disk with the drivers on it.

> 

> FWIW, I stopped running its no-halt driver when I installed B&B hard drives

> -- word was that the no-halt driver had "interactions" that could screw up your

> hard drive.

> 

> If you have no HD, or use an IDE, then you should be OK to run no-halt.  The

> installation requires you to zap a byte or two in the OS9 kernel, I forget

> which module.  If I find the instructions, you can have them and the disk.

> 

> Funny question popped into my head -- would there be any sense in an RSBASIC

> no-halt driver?  Maybe for some fancy assembly-language data gathering app,

> that could do its own multi-tasking while the disk is doing I/O?

> --Mike K.

> 

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