[Coco] Moving Files

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Sunday, March 18, 2012 09:00:20 PM Mark Marlette wrote:
> 1. SuperDriver will allow this and if you are running a Cloud-9
> distribution you should have all the descriptors to talk to all the
> devices.
> 
> 2. Yes. Just don't plug them in with power applied or move/bump them, you
> had a blown CPLD, which has been the only failure I have seen on the
> SuperIDE.
> 
> 3. Sure they will in a good system.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard E. Crislip" <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:09:39 PM
> Subject: [Coco] Moving Files
> 
> Hi.
> 
> This quesion is for Mark or Boisey, but if others know the answer please
> feel free to chime in. I have a TC3 and a SUper IDE card. A SCSI HD is
> connected to the TC3 and a SD card is plugged into the Super IDE. I can
> boot RSDOS and Nitros from the SuperIDE, but can only boot RSDOS with the
> TC3. I am not knowlegable enough to fix the broken Nitros on the SCSI
> drive. My data is on the SCSI HD and I want to copy it to the logical
> drives setup on the SuperIDE SD card.
> 1) Can I do this.
> 2) Can I plug both into the MPI w/o smoking something (Mark, I am sure you
> will recall that I did smoke the SuperIDE which you fixed, but I have
> absolutely no idea how I did it and I SURE do not want to do that again).
> 3) neither allow me to access the actual floppies. Ofcourse there may be
> other issues there. I have either the TC3 or the SuperIDE plugged into
> slot 3 on the MPI and the Disto FD controller with the special ROMs
> plugged into slot 4. BTW I am running a CoC3, 512k memory and buffered bus
> protection. If you need any further information, I will be happy to
> provide it. TIA
> 
> RIchard

Thanks Mark, bumping the MPI probably did the trick the last time and as I 
said I do not want to burn one up again. Thanks also for ansering the other 
questions too. Hopefully we get to visit a little this coming May.