[Coco] floppy controller & L1

[Paul T. Barton]

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

> 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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Somewhere in my files I have the source to
"Newdisk" that I used on L1.

I'll try and find it and get it to the ftp site.


Paul

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