[Coco] NitrOS-9 newbie needs some help (Final)

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Aug 12, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Nickolas Marentes wrote:

> Besides, I've made the decision that I won't go any further with OS-9 
> until
> I get a hard drive going or at least get Cloud 9's DriveCable product 
> (which
> is my current preferred). Can you tell me if the DriveCable server 
> acts as a
> hard drive or as "virtual floppy drives"? For example, can I setup a 5 
> Mb
> "hard drive" using the DriveCable? I understand that it will run at 
> floppy
> disk speeds but that is ok with me.
>
Nick,

You can set up as large of a virtual disk as you want.  You can mount 
floppy disk images or modify the descriptor and make 100MB images.  
It's all up to you.

DriveWire is a little slower than a floppy disk, but it's still quite 
bearable.  I use it exclusively when developing NitrOS-9.

Boisy