[Coco] Hard Drive Partition

[Mark Marlette]

John is getting the complete system setup on a 256MB Compact Flash.

HDB-DOS and SuperDriver, plug-n-play. As close as you will get on the 
CoCo. John. PLEASE read the information enclosed in your package.

Regards,

Mark

At 5/29/2007 06:00 AM, you wrote:

>John T Chasteen wrote:
>
>>Hello Folks
>>My Super Cloud-9 IDE HD unit is being shipped this week.
>>How do I partition the IDE HD so I can have RSDOS  and NitrOS9?
>>All suggestions will be appreciated
>>John
>>--
>
>Depending on what you purchased from Cloud-9, you will get HDB-DOS 
>or need to get it. That is a special version of DOS that contains a 
>predetermined partition size for the OS-9 portion of the hard drive. 
>Disk Basic has the OS-9 offset automatically added to any sector 
>position used by Basic. If you want to work with Basic drive #23 and 
>your OS-9 allocation is ex. 100Mb, the drive #23 will start at 100Mb 
>+ 23*35*18*256 bytes; 100Mb+drives 0-22.
>
>Clearly the size of the OS-9 partition depends on the hard drive and 
>whether you indicated you intended to use it with Disk Basic. 
>Cloud-9 must be informed as a custom ROM has to be created or some 
>default value used.
>
>It is possible with a Coco3 (runs in RAM), to alter the offset for 
>Disk Basic on the fly. This helps with systems having two or more 
>hard drives of different sizes. Changing the offset values in RAM 
>also permits having multiple "partitions" of 256 Basic drives on the 
>same hard drive.
>
>There was a white paper I wrote on the Cloud-9 site about working 
>with more than 256 Disk Basic drives per hard drive.
>
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