[Coco] Swapping hard drives with SuperIDE

[Diego Barizo]

I'm trying with the offset poking method.
The calculated value is $01df76
That means that I have to poke 01 to d938, df to d939 and 76 to d93a ?
The manuals only indicate d938 and d939 as where the offset value is 
stored (hi and low bytes)...

Diego



Mark Marlette wrote:
> 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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