[Coco] Multiple HDB-DOS 256 drive partitions Software Wanted

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 09:34:36 EDT 2013


afaik you cannot create more than on os-9 partition since it begins from
bottom-up. how can you put two LSN0 ?

the thing you can multiply is the 256-RGB disks, by poking a new hdb-dos
offset. Check the last image I sent to you, it has a second 256-disk
partition for mod player.


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Now that I have figured out how to poke the MPI slot register to activate
> the Floppy drives under HDB-DOS 1.1D LBA rom image in the flash memory of
> the SuperIDE, I want to experiment with multiple HDB-DOS 256 Drive
> partitions and some type of Huge Disk cataloging program to index all the
> partitions in one big database file.
>
> I have a 4BG hard drive connected to the IDE connector to try my hand at
> formatting what I understand is the Largest hard drive capacity NitrOS-9
> can
> handle.  It has over 8 million LBA sectors on it.  I might have to
> partition
> the HD into multiple NitrOS-9 partitions, but I'm going to try one huge
> partition first after the HDB-DOS 256 Drives are setup.
>
> I'm trying to find a DB9F solder connector in my spare RS-232 parts and/or
> cables, but so far I have found nothing compatible yet.  I know it's in
> storage somewhere.  I want to get Drivewire 4 Server communicating with my
> Coco 3 SuperIDE setup.
>
> Well, everyone have fun at the CoCoFEST.  Please let us all know about the
> video feed so I watch it this year.  I had forgot about the video feed last
> year, so I missed all the action.
>
> Take care all and have fun Cocoing!
>
> Kip
>
>
>
>
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