[Coco] RGB/HDB-DOS question

[mmarlett at isd.net]

No comparison between the Glenside and the SuperDriver package. Boisy did a
fine job on this one, best driver package ever for the CoCo. SCSI/IDE, CHS,
LBA/ATAPI, auto drive query, cache, etc....He implemented low/high lever
drivers in this product.

Boisy care to expand on the differences/enhancements????

Mark

>--- "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Robert Emery wrote:
>> >
>> > There are programs for RSDOS that patch basic for 40 or 80 track 
>> > access. Is it safe to do this under HDB-DOS? or is it likely to
>> > corrupt the hard drive?
>> 
>> I can't say for sure, since I don't know how these programs patch 
>> RS-DOS.  You can try it and see.
>
>uh... maybe later... (puts the loaded gun down)
> 
>> > What if the 40 track patch was used before formatting the drives? 
>> > Assuming it worked, that would change the OS-9 offset, right?
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean here.  Do you mean the OS-9 offset that is 
>> stored at  $D938-$D93A of HDB-DOS?  Or some other "OS-9 offset?"
>
>I mean the number WIZARD.BAS calculates and tells us to write down because
>we'll need it when we make a drive descriptor for OS-9. If the drives are
40
>tracks instead of 35 (on a 256 drive setup), the HDB partition will be
about
>23,000 sectors larger than what WIZARD.BAS expects, right?
> 
>> > I have just finished formatting my first CoCo HD under HDB-DOS. Yay. 
>> > I have the latest release of NitrOS-9 booting, now where can get IDE 
>> > driver/descriptor for
>> > NOS-9? (if possible, already assembled, I'm aware of the CVS source)
>> 
>> I recommend the SuperDriver Package at www.cloud9tech.com.
>
>Money's tight... I am still unemployed. I'd rather assemble them myself
and
>save the money for a hardware upgrade, like a SuperIDE or Pro-tector.
>
>> Do you have a Glenside IDE interface?
>
>I have a Glenside compatible... Paul Barton's Pocket IDE, which will
eventually
>become part of the CoCo3 Portable. Right now it's hooked up to my repack,
since
>that's the one with 512K.
>
>cheers,
>Bob
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
>http://mail.yahoo.com 
>
>-- 
>Coco mailing list
>Coco at maltedmedia.com
>http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>