[Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller

Sat Apr 13 21:14:55 EDT 2013

its not finding the CF. did you change any jumper on superIDE? try with the
stock 256MB CF.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Luis,
> Thanks a lot for the files.  I finally got them downloaded just fine.
> I'm having trouble with my SuperIDE controller.  It worked fine yesterday,
> but after disassembling my Coco 3 MPI to do some testing with other cocos
> and reassembling my coco3 setup, it's not finding the CF card anymore.  It
> never gets to the OK prompt on power up with the cycling curser.  Weird!?!
> I'll keep working with it.  Thanks again, my friend, for the mountain of
> data.  It will be fun finding out what all you have given me.  Take care
> and
> have fun!
> Kip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:29 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller
>
> no there is a green button beside the file (with the 45MB in)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Luis,
> > Do I need to download the Rocket download program just to download
> > your two files?  I'd rather download the two files directly.  Thanks for
> the help.
> > Kip
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
> > [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> > On
> > Behalf Of Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:32 AM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller
> >
> > If you want to play with CF cards i just made this multiboot OS-9
> paradise:
> > you get 5 distros in one CF:
> >
> > 512mb cf:
> > http://www.mediafire.com/?uvy4efpmg3lxf8x
> >
> > 256mb cf:
> > http://www.mediafire.com/?sjqde4btjab0c29
> >
> > you can use dd on unix/cygwin to write on your cf or use SideWalk.
> >
> > There is lots of stuff on these images.
> >
> > os distros:
> >
> > OS-9 L1 V2.00.00
> > NitrOS-9 L1 V3.2.9
> > NitrOS-9 L1 V3.2.9 Coco2B
> > NitrOS-9 L2 V3.2.9 6809
> > NitrOS-9 L2 V3.2.9 6309
> >
> >
> > Enjoy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:22 AM, 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Kip
> > >
> > >
> > >
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