[Coco] 1000sx update

[Bob Devries]

I had a similar problem both with a Xebec SASI-to_MFM board, and another 
brand.
Both would unpredictably "trash" a sector in the FAT, making it unreadable. 
I never found out why it happened. Needless to say I became very adept at 
re-formatting the fat, and re-writing it. IIRC, I wrote a small utility that 
copied the FAT to a file of which I made note of the location.

I changed to a SCSI drive, and never had the problem using the SCSISYS 
drivers.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] 1000sx update


> >Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:16:59 -0400
>>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>
>>On Thursday 20 April 2006 04:17, Willard Goosey wrote:
>>>Heh, OK.  It's a fast MFM drive, if that's not a complete
>>> contradiction in terms. ;-)
>>
>>Well, in terms of a coco's speed, its still supersonic. :)
>>
> If Tandy had put a real expansion bus and a DMA controller in the
> CoCo... Ah well.
>
> To use MFM on my CoCo, I'd have to dig up that old XEBEC SASI-to-MFM
> board and use the LR-Tech controller, and I don't think I'm going
> there.  I don't remember if I did, but when I gave up on that setup I
> may very well have taken a hammer to that XEBEC board.  It certainly
> deserved it.
>
> You know, that's why my CoCo 3 quit being my main computer... It
> simply could not keep a hard drive filesystem uncorrupted.
>
> Willard
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