[Coco] Formatting OS-9 hard drives

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Feb 17 22:22:54 EST 2017


> On Feb 17, 2017, at 9:12 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Allen, I have no experience with SCSI drives, but with my Glenside IDE and RBSuper/LLIDE drivers, I formatted 4 gig IDE drive partitions using the standard NitrOS9 format using both logical and physical mode (took all day) and had no problems. I also have been recently formatting 128 meg & 1 gig partitions on the Coco3FPGA SD card (again, RBSuper/LLCoco3FPGA) with the NitrOS9 format, again, no problems.
> So yes, format should handle large drives without a problem.

Looks like my old hardware is just giving out. I may be out of the CoCo business :(




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