[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Sep 20, 2004, at 4:12 PM, Benoit Bleau wrote:

> Mark,Boisy
>
> I found a few 3 gigs hard drives in a rummage sale for 5 bucks, so I 
> decided
> to bring them home.  I formatted them using Nitros-9 and the 
> superdrivers,
> on my superIDE coco3, and that worked great (took a long, long time,
> though).
>
> -I noticed that using the autosizing feature, something happened with 
> the
> format program:  when the track(side?) counter reached FFFF, then 
> started
> again back at 0. This went on and on, in a loop.  After 24 hours or so,
> I assumed that this wasn't normal, and I changed the /i0 descriptors 
> so that
> I had a low track count (63) and side count (16) , and a large number 
> of
> Sectors per track ( 12000 or so).  I ran the format, and this time it 
> worked
> fine.  Is there's a limit of 65535 sides to the format program?

I suspect 3GB would take a LONG time to do a physical verify on a CoCo. 
  What you are seeing are track numbers, and I believe on large drives 
that they will roll over.

> -I tried to format the drives using HDB-DOS, but only got IO Errors.  
> Is
> this because the drives are ATAPI ?

It could be, though I doubt IDE hard drives are ATAPI.

> -I tried to use an IDE ZIP-100 drive, and when I try the format 
> command,
> I get a device-not ready error in Nitros9. Is there a trick to make it
> Work?

Nope, it should just work, assuming it's set properly for master or 
slave.
>
> Mark,
> I've mailed you the SimpleTech 256mb CF.  You should get it sometime 
> this
> week.  I've also added my contribution to the superboard effort :)
>
> Thanks for the great products, guys!
>
> -Ben
>
>
>
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