[Coco] CoCoSDC and SuperIDE together was SDC Troubles

[David Ladd]

Henry,

My setup normally was Deluxe RS232 Pak in slot 1, SDC slot 2, SuperIDE slot
3, and real floppy drive in slot 4. :)

Sincerely,
David Ladd
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:33 PM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I have my floppy in slot 4
> SuperIDE in slot 3
> and sdc in slot1
>
> boot up the coco in slot 3 with the superIDE
>
> now type DRIVE OFF 0
>                   POKE 65407,0
> now DIR 0,  you will see the contents of the SDCX on the root of the SDC
> SD card
> but you can still DIR 1-255 of the SuperIDE
>
> Basically the coco is runnung HDB-DOS from the SuperIDE.  When you do a
> DRIVE OFF 0 HDB-DOS tells the superIDE that you are going to use the
> physical drive 0, but because you POKED slot 0 (SDC) of the MPI you are
> tricking HDB-DOS into thinking that the SDC is physical drive 0.  So you
> can BACKUP XXX to 0 where xxx is a any drive on the IDE(1-255) and 0 is the
> root of the SDC
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Alex Evans <
> varmfskii at gmail.com>
> Sent: April 19, 2020 8:10 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: [Coco] CoCoSDC and SuperIDE together was SDC Troubles
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 8:02 PM rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > ??
> >
> > Very realistic. I use this setup all the time
> So, how do you set it up?
> Do you use a ROM from the SDC or SuperIDE?
> Which ROM do you use?
> Which one is in slot4?
> How do you independently select the active drive image on each?
>
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