[Coco] Largest supported HDD size?

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 12:45:14 EST 2016


On Dec 1, 2016 10:07 AM, "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I will add that, if I were still using my CoCo as a primary system, I
would want something that does no-halt, like the KenTon did and SuperIDE
did. During disk access under OS-9/CoCoSDC, I lose characters while typing.

Sounds odd.  The sdc's ldb mode can operate without halting, or shutting
off interrupts.  Shouldn't loose any keys. I guess you're using plain old
fdc driver then?

> Also, the hard drive adapters were faster for disk I/O.

I notice better seek times with my cf than the sdc.  bit, I cant imagine
the data transfers being any slower.

brett


More information about the Coco mailing list