[Coco] SDC with OS-9 (Was: Ownership of NitOS-9)
Nick Marentes
nickma2 at optusnet.com.au
Sat Nov 8 00:36:43 EST 2014
On 8/11/2014 3:27 PM, tim lindner wrote:
> Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> 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.
> I would very much apreciate this. It doesn't seem possible to access a
> real floppy disks under OS-9 while also using the SDC.
>
> Also, are there tools around for OS-9 to command the SDC to load/create
> different DSK images?
>
Never fear Tim, I have been in touch with Darren and Darren has it
working now. A NitrOS-9 driver problem I believe.
This is in regards to the problems I highlighted in an earlier post.
I have a working test version.
Give him time and it will available for download.
Nick
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