[Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller

[David Ladd]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I hope everyone is doing well.
>
> I recently acquired a SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller Pak from a friend of
> mine and I need the software and documentation for it.  I downloaded a doc
> file for it from Cloud-9, and after reading it, I have gotten it to boot
> off
> the Compact flash card.  Is that all the docs there is for it?  If so,
> cool.
>
> Anyway, I love this SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller PAK!  I'm running it
> with
> my Disto Super Controller and they both cohabitate just fine.
>
> I will be playing with an actual hard drive soon.  I expect it will take a
> long time to format an 8.4GB hard drive as a 4GB drive.  Man, I don't like
> wasting all that hard drive storage space!  Anyhow, I know this is overkill
> big time, but I thought why not.  It ought to be interesting.  I wonder if
> NitrOS-9 will burp, bomb out or crash before it gets to the end of
> formatting that drive.  I plan on formatting every possible LSN with 256
> bytes per sector anyway.  Maybe I should use a smaller hard drive to start
> off with during the testing phase.  I'll let you all know what happens on
> my
> web page.  If you guys foresee a problem with this, please let me know.  I
> probably won't do it tonight, but who knows.
>
Personally I would probably stick with the CF cards myself.  You can still
get the 4GB ones that would probably be faster than a old 9GB HDD, or at
least the 4GB high speed camera CF cards would be faster I would think :D .


>
> Also, I need the software for the SuperIDE controller so I can program some
> other DOS rom images into the flash.  Thank you in advance.
>
You might have to contact Mark at Cloud9 about that.


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> Kip
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