[Color Computer][Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Boisy Pitre]

On Mar 4, 2006, at 6:18 PM, George's Coco Address wrote:


>

> ----- 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?


What???

Boisy