[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

[mmarlett at isd.net]

Al,

I let Boisy handle the rbsuper question. I just wanted to say GREAT that
you got the files copied. I'm assuming that was under the BETA version of
KENTON llKEN or whatever it is called and RBsuper, and llIDE. It is a BLAST
to watch the lights flash! I haven't even seen this package yet. Under the
TC^3 and CF/IDE with SuperDriver, sweet........

Could you send me the IDEprobe info on the 256MB CF you are using? I would
like to log that information into our CF database that we are keeping track
of. Ben is using a 256MB CF and is having problems. I can say that I DID
NOT have a 256MB CF to test with. So you are going were no man has gone
before......

As far as the GUI, man I'm telling you that if you could improve on Towel,
that would be GREAT. I loved that program. SOLD!!!

Mark




>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.
>
>
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