[Coco] floppy controller & L1

[Bob Devries]

Paul, AFAIK the newdisk.asm file is already on RTSI.
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Regards, Bob Devries. Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] floppy controller & L1


> 
> --- 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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