[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

[alsplace at pobox.com]

Refresh my memory -- "rbsuper" does what?  I understand it handles 
splitting up physical 512+ byte sectors into logical sectors for OS-9.  
But what else?

And, if llram, ll1773, etc. were done, would we save more system RAM, 
or are those drivers not really doing any of the stuff that rbsuper 
takes care of to matter?

I was able to copy my entire EZ135 drive to the 256MB CF card, and no 
lockups.  I'm going to make another backup, and once I'm satisifed I 
have everything copied, I will burn the CF image to a CD for safe 
keeping.

One thing I really need to write for the CoCo is a modern file manager 
utility that can easily sort, move, etc. massive files for large hard 
drive cleanup projects like what I am about to go thru.  I would also 
like to write a similar one (you know, like Windows Explorer or 
something) in Java that deals with disk images.  We'll see where my 
time goes between now and the Fest.

It was amazing stepping through my hard drive, not really touched since 
1996, and finding text files galore with articles I wrote (including 
some extensive ones on the EZ135 and drive setup with Kenton, which I 
will make available as soon as I have time to pull them off the CoCo).  
Also, my old BBS (with themes I forgot I created), stories, tons of 
work-in-progress items I never got to do... Just a ton of my life 
there.  I'm glad I still have this stuff.

Next project after this is preserving all the floppies :(

-----Original Message-----
From: Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at boisypitre.com>
Sent: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:57:49 -0500
Whether or not there are advantages to doing them under rbsuper as 
opposed to stand alone RBF drivers, well that's debatable. For certain, 
any device that requires 512 byte sectors or greater is an excellent 
candidate for SuperDriver. And that's certainly where SCSI and IDE fit 
in.