[Coco] Some help on CoCoXT and RGB-DOS

[Bill Pierce]

Daniel.
The B&B CocoXT will not (as far as I know) run with HDBDOS. Not unless they fixed that in some of the various incarnations of it.
You need the B&B Hyper-IO disk & the B&B setup disk. There is also A CocoXT rom to boot OS9 from the HD, but it's tricky.
I never did try Hyper-IO while mine was running, but from what I read, it creates RSDOS disk "images" within the OS9 drive. It does not actually use partitions. From what I understand, it allows you to create RSDOS disks as large as you want and even create "directories" just like in OS9. So in essence, you can have several RSDOS "vhds".
All the disks and manuals for the B&B systems are buried somewhere deep in malted-media (good luck with that), but I also have all of what's there (I think).

I zipped up everything I had (including manuals and addendems) and it's here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Burke%20and%20Burke/Burke%20n%20Burke%20XTHD.zip
 

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: Sun, Jun 1, 2014 10:50 pm
Subject: [Coco] Some help on CoCoXT and RGB-DOS


Hello,

Some time ago I have aquired a CoCoXT interface with a WD1002A-27X RLL 
controller attached, but was just yesterday that I got my hands on a 
still functional RLL drive made by Prológica here in Brazil. Now I need 
some help to configure it.
I have done a search on the web but just found ways to configure 
OS-9/Nitros-9, but I really wish to configure RGB-DOS on it. I read the 
CoCoXT manual and they talk about HYPER I/O program, where I can find 
that for download? Manuals ? It's possible to configure HDB-DOS to use 
with the CoCoXT ? Any ROM available for download, that I can burn and 
put on the WD controller to load the HDD directly?

I would be grateful for any information to put me on the right track, 
because I'm totally lost on this subject.

Thanks!
Daniel

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