[Coco] Swapping hard drives with SuperIDE

[Mark Marlette]

Diego,

Correct.

Allan suggested one method, another is to use a different FLASH bank 
in the SuperIDE or you can just poke the offset. $d938-3a.

BTW: Since a full 256 drive HDB-DOS partition uses ~80MB a 256MB CF 
will yield A LOT of NitrOS-9 space. I make all mine the same that way 
you don't have to worry about changing offsets.

Mark
Cloud-9

At 5/5/2008 09:03 PM, you wrote:

>My original plan was to use 2 had drives (actually CF cards), 1 for 
>HDB-DOS, the other for NitrOS-9, and swap them as needed.
>Today I was going trough the steps to setup a floppy-less NitrOS-9 
>installation, and some issues came to my mind.
>In order to boot from the CF, I will need a HDB-DOS partition of at 
>least 1 disk size, to contain the actual boot disk. This partition 
>will reside after the NOS-9 one, and HDB-DOS will use an offset to 
>avoid writing over the NOS-9 partition.
>But that means that I can not just swap that CF card for another one 
>with a different configuration, since the HDB-DOS partitions will 
>start in different positions... Right?
>I guess that the right thing would be to use one of the flash banks 
>in the SuperIDE for each CF card?
>Is there any other way to have a floppy-less system, besides a 
>custom NitrOS-9 ROM?
>
>Diego
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