[Coco] Nitros9 on Keil

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 00:17:33 EDT 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 14/09/2010 10:35 AM, Robert Gault wrote:
>
>> SuperDriver is the name for the Cloud-9 IDE software but I believe it is
>> only for NitrOS-9. I see on the Cloud-9 site that HDBDOS will also support
>> the SuperIDE interface so it is both IDE and SCSI. The original RGBDOS was
>> just SCSI.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance and thanks for being so patient with my
> questions.
>
> HDBDOS supports the IDE interface but, IIUC, you need IDE drivers for
> Nitros9/OS9 to enable Nitros9/OS9 to boot off the IDE hard drive partition
> via HDBDOS. Those drivers (for Nitros9) are provided on the SuperIDE disk by
> Cloud 9. As for OS9, I can't say.
>

If you are asking whether SuperDriver is the only IDE driver for OS9,
there appears to be another IDE driver included in the NitrOS9 CVS:
http://nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nitros9/nitros9/3rdparty/drivers/?sortdir=down

>From what I know of it, SuperDriver is probably the easiest and most
flexible solution, but others do exist.

> Have I got that right?
>
> Regards,
>
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