[Coco] coco sdc?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 29 April 2020 09:48:54 Christopher R. Hawks wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:38:00 -0400
>
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > SDC, doesn't work, never has. Very early rev C board.
> >
> > Where can I download the contents of the first floppy image that is
> > supposed to be on the sd card?  I never got a floppy with all that
> > stuff on it. eeprom writer etc.  With all this time counting flowers
> > on the wall, I may as well do something usefull.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Gene:
>
>     Mine is Rev C 11 - 2013. Worked the first time, always has.
>
>     What does yours do/not? DECB should sign on as usual, followed by
> "SDC-DOS 1.X CC3" (or CC2 or CC1, I guess).

Never have seen that. 2GB sd (blank) in it. LED does come on for about a 
second at powerup.
I've been out on the net and collected a couple of big zip files
from the color computer archive:
Coco_SDC_Image_2019-05-02.zip (210+ megs)
CoCo SDC User Guide.pdf (which I've printed along with the changes file)
CoCo_SDC_User_Guide.zip
NitrOS-9 6309 Level 2 3.3.0 (OS-9) (Coco SDC) (Coco 3).zip (30 megs)

That look interesting but its nearly all rsdos stuff except for the 30 
meg nitros9 archive.  And I'm allergic to rsdos, gives my ancient brain 
a bad rash.  But you knew that :)

The SDC is in slot 1, a rom-less dual (home made) rs232 pack in slot2, a 
tc^3 with an early hdbdos-1A rom in it in slot3 and a disto no-halt with 
the 4n1 removed in slot4.  The TC^3 has an RTC in it.

No change in the signon with a change in the slot switch, but my mpi has 
been patched, signon is a time out menu of what to boot from, which I 
think that its coming from the autoexec.bat on hdbdos's vdisk0 on the 
first of 2 1G scsi hard drives.  The 2nd drive is all os9.

These hd's are now about 30 yo, and getting very hard to start, stiction, 
so I'd like to transfer the first drive's nitros9 stuff to the sd card. 
The 2nd drive is a dsaved copy of the first. But I seem to be lost in 
(spit) rs(hdbdos version)dos land, and could use an "SDC for dummies" 
book.  Can I trust what the pdf says?

Thanks Christopher.

> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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