[Coco] CoCo Hard Drive History

[Arthur Flexser]

I recall that Burke & Burke also had HyperIO, a competitor to RGBDOS,
which allowed virtual floppy partitions in configurable and varying
sizes.  Not sure why it lost out so decisively to RGBDOS in the
marketplace as a means of using a hard drive under Basic.

Art

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 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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