[Color Computer][Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[George's Coco Address]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" 


> On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:32, Mark Marlette wrote:

>>Test more than one CoCo on a SCSI drive?

>>

>>That would be a disaster.

>>

Gene said......


> It could be if the driver doesn't have collision detection, which I'd 

> bet the farm none of them do.  I mean, this IS the coco we're talking 

> about here folks. :)

> 

> But the scsi specs themselves do have collision detection as a very 

> important function, for exactly that reason.  For the coco though, that 

> would mean that the middle 16 wires in the cable would have to be used 

> as the handshaking to control that is in the middle of the connector 

> IIRC.

> 

> Does your tc^3 interface support that somehow?


 I betcha ... OS-9 will do it.

 I betcha ... Nitros9 won't.


  Well?

George