[Coco] Ownership of NitOS-9

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 17:06:44 EST 2014


On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:

> On 6/11/2014 7:12 AM, Darren A wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> It sounds like a firmware update for the CoCo SDC is needed. I guess a
>> mechanism should be added to allow the OS9 driver to lock out the
>> controller's floppy emulation capability so that /d0 and /d1 aren't
>> recognized.
>>
>>
> No! Can you make them both work?
>
> I find that I need to mount the /sd0 and be able to access a normal dsk
> image in the second drive.
>
> I copy things from /d1 to /sd0.
>
> Or am I doing this wrong?
>
> I want to eventually copy the files off my standard MultiVue 40 track DSK
> to the /SD0. Or does this use /SD1?
>
>
I don't think this would be a problem. The 40 track DSK image can still be
accessed by the LBA driver.

Darren


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