[Coco] CoCo Hard Drive History

[Bill Pierce]

Daniel,
If you are referring to the Burke & Burke Interface, the drivers and manual are in the archives as well as the drivers are built in the NitrOs9 repository.
I have one and was using it up until the drive gave up on me last year.
You have to build your own drive descriptors as every drive is different. There's a whole section on this (as well as software to do it) in the manual

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Campos <daniel.campus at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Oct 12, 2013 6:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Hard Drive History


Em 12/10/2013 19:15, Mark J. Blair escreveu:
> I recently got an OS-9 Level 2 package for the CoCo 3. This is my first time 
experimenting with OS-9. I may upgrade to NitrOS-9 someday, but I'm going to get 
familiar with this original OS-9 with its matching manual first.
>
> The manual makes several mentions of hard drives. Were there any commercially 
supported hard drive packages for the CoCo back when it was in production, or 
are these mentions of hard drive support leakage from other OS-9 distributions, 
or referring to something that folks were expected to home-brew, etc.? I do not 
recall ever seeing a hard drive package for the CoCo back then, but I quit 
paying much attention to anything CoCo-related around 1985 or so.
>

http://cyberabi.ipower.com/Gallery/CoCo/index.html

By the way, I just received this yesterday:

https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/InterfacesDeDriveEOutrasEncomendas#5933650780058417810

https://picasaweb.google.com/109345699838454178536/InterfacesDeDriveEOutrasEncomendas#5933650866491915538

Now I have to find a fully functional MFM hard drive to use with this 
beast.
Can I still find the software for this anywhere?

Daniel

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