[Coco] floppy controller & L1

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	Do tell. I've never been to the Nitros-9 site. Point me to the
source I'll port it to L1 on a deuce (-3026)!

					kevin
"Boisy G. Pitre" wrote:
> 
> Deep in the bowels of the NitrOS-9 project is source for the Sardis
> Level 2 driver.  Someone should really backport that driver to Level 1.
>   It's not impossible, just takes some time, patience and a little
> skill.  I would do it, but I have way too many other projects on the
> plate right now.
> 
> Bottom line:  fill a need, lend a hand... the NitrOS-9 Project could
> use volunteers.
> 
> On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Kevin Diggs wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >       I have a driver disk. There are no L1 drivers. Only L2. Also have some
> > doc-
> > umentation. But not enough technical detail to write a driver.
> >
> >                                       kevin
> > KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >>>   Kevin Diggs <kevdig at hypersurf.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>    I have a Sardis Technology Dual mode controller. Isn't
> >>>> this one of those "no halt"
> >>>> beasties? Anyone know where I can find an OS9 L1 driver?
> >>
> >> I still use on on my Coco3 setup, mostly for OS-9.   I don't recall
> >> whether I
> >> had it running on OS-9 Level 1, or didn't get it till I had Level 2.
> >> But I'm
> >> sure that *somewhere* I have the original distro disk with the
> >> drivers on it.
> >>
> >> FWIW, I stopped running its no-halt driver when I installed B&B hard
> >> drives
> >> -- word was that the no-halt driver had "interactions" that could
> >> screw up your
> >> hard drive.
> >>
> >> If you have no HD, or use an IDE, then you should be OK to run
> >> no-halt.  The
> >> installation requires you to zap a byte or two in the OS9 kernel, I
> >> forget
> >> which module.  If I find the instructions, you can have them and the
> >> disk.
> >>
> >> Funny question popped into my head -- would there be any sense in an
> >> RSBASIC
> >> no-halt driver?  Maybe for some fancy assembly-language data
> >> gathering app,
> >> that could do its own multi-tasking while the disk is doing I/O?
> >> --Mike K.
> >>
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