[Coco] Super IDE vs. Drive Pak

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 04:44:51 PM Boisy G. Pitre did opine:

> Is it safe for me to poke my head in and discuss? :)
> 
I am not 'running' the discussion, so I see no reason why you can't dip an 
oar in here.  Factual arguments should always be welcome.  Who better to 
discuss the pro's and con's of how its done or why it is not practical if 
it wasn't done?

> Best Regards,
> Boisy G. Pitre
> 
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> 
> On Nov 16, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:15:21PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> 
wrote:
> >>> What I want is for Boisy to find a way to use the eprom space on the
> >>> SuperIDE and modify HDB dos to work with the CF card and drivewire
> >>> at the same time. :-)
> >> 
> >> I wanted something like this too and asked about it, but apparently
> >> the only way to support multiple drive types like that is to use a
> >> 16k rom.  HDBDOS is limited to an 8K rom for compatibility with all
> >> coco models and software.  Boisy wasn't interested in going to a 16k
> >> rom for those reasons.
> >> 
> >> Brett's CoCoBoot project is a nice workaround.  It is able to talk to
> >> superide, floppy, drivewire, and more all at once and copy disks
> >> between them.  it also can flash the rom slots in the superide,
> >> pulling the rom image from any of the above.  lots of neat tricks.
> > 
> > I've been asking for this for a long time and Boisy has always made it
> > clear that there isn't room for it in the 8K rom and wasn't
> > interested in making it work with a 16K rom. I keep hoping, hope
> > against hope that one day he gets tired of me asking and makes the
> > change. Something along the lines of a "SuperHDB dos" for those of us
> > with a SuperIDE interface. :-)
> > 
> > The Other Frank
> > 
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