[Coco] SDC Lba mode

[Tim Fadden]

Just wondering, why do you want to use two sdc cards?  With one, you can 
still have 2 floppy sdc  images, and 2 hard drive images. Or any 
combination totaling 4.

Tim,

On 11/28/2017 3:42 PM, Steve Pedersen wrote:
> Ok, So what I want to do can't currently be done. bummer.
> So it sounds like what I need is a super ide or the glenside ide board.
> Is anyone produceing either that I could buy ? The Super IDE would be
> prefered with it's cf card slot.
> If any of the brilliant hardware dev people would consider makine a
> superduper IDE supporting 2 master/slave pairs linked to sd or cf card's I
> will be happy to buy such a beast. or even just a single master/slave board.
> The older ide boards are currently unobtainable at least I think so, If
> there is anyone produceing the old ide cards please let me know.
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Steve Pedersen <
>> 666jacktheknife666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks ,
>>> I have been looking around on the internet for information on the SDC lba
>>> mode.
>>> My google fu skills must be weak cause I havent really found anything but
>>> mentions that there is an lba mode.
>>> My coco system is not up and running yet but this is what I am wanting to
>>> do.
>>> coco 1 with mpi 2 sdc's in slot 3 and 4 slot 3 sdc will be for floppy
>>> images and the slot 4 sdc will be for lba hard disk images <biggest I can
>>> make for OS9>
>>> I just cant seem to find any information on useing the sdc with hard disk
>>> or lba images.
>>> If anyone has done a tutorial or can point me in the right direction I
>>> would appreciate it.
>>>
>>>
>> You would need an OS9 driver and boot module to use LBA mode.  These have
>> already been written for NitrOS-9.
>>
>> The sources are here:
>> SDC Driver (using rbSuper)
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/code/ci/default/tree/
>> level1/modules/llcocosdc.asm>
>> SDC Boot Module
>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/nitros9/code/ci/default/tree/
>> level1/modules/boot_sdc.asm>
>>
>>
>> While it is possible to use multiple SDC boards in an MPI, neither the
>> existing drivers nor SDC-DOS support this.
>>
>> - Darren
>>
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