[Coco] Solid state disk drive
Bruce W Calkins
brucewcalkins at charter.net
Mon Apr 17 18:48:12 EDT 2017
On 04/17/2017 06:16 PM, James Ross wrote:
> Stephen Batson wrote:
>> Assuming your aren't talking about the CoCoSDC. Why even bother
>> when the CoCoSDC is well supported and can hold much more
>> with a big SD card.
> So you would not have to run the SDC DOS that boots up w/ the CoCoSDC. By using a 720k emulator (if compatible w/ the CoCo controller), you could boot standard DECB and use it. While there may not actually be a *good* reason to do this other than for the FUN of it --- nonetheless, there is the reason. :)
>
> James
>
720k disks work well under OS-9 and NitrOS9. Disk Extended Color Basic
not so much. You will need to be careful that DECB never sees a 720k
disk because it will rewrite the Granule Allocation Table for 160kj
Bruce W.
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