[Coco] NitrOS-9 newbie needs some help (Final)
Boisy G. Pitre
boisy at boisypitre.com
Thu Aug 12 16:23:55 EDT 2004
On Aug 12, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Nickolas Marentes wrote:
> Besides, I've made the decision that I won't go any further with OS-9
> until
> I get a hard drive going or at least get Cloud 9's DriveCable product
> (which
> is my current preferred). Can you tell me if the DriveCable server
> acts as a
> hard drive or as "virtual floppy drives"? For example, can I setup a 5
> Mb
> "hard drive" using the DriveCable? I understand that it will run at
> floppy
> disk speeds but that is ok with me.
>
Nick,
You can set up as large of a virtual disk as you want. You can mount
floppy disk images or modify the descriptor and make 100MB images.
It's all up to you.
DriveWire is a little slower than a floppy disk, but it's still quite
bearable. I use it exclusively when developing NitrOS-9.
Boisy
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