[Coco] HDB-DOS wish list

[Robert Gault]

Benoit Bleau wrote:

> Can I make a wish list for new features in HDB-DOS?
> 
> 1. Add partition support (maybe something like 8 partitions) stored in the
> eprom or flash.  Each partition could be defined as drive:offset and
> accessed as drive #0, #1 , #2 etc.
> 
Read the white paper on the Cloud-9 site, "Using Large Drives with 
HDB-DOS", for some ideas on "partions" that work with the current software.

> For scsi,  that drive:offset could be 0 to 7 and for ide drive could be
> 0 for master, and 1 for slave.
> 
RGBDOS (and therefore HDB-DOS) has support for access to 7 scsi channels 
and 0 & 1 drives per channel. This worked through an Adaptec controller 
but the drives are not master/slave; just A & B.

> Using this method, we could have many partitions on the same drive, and
> others on different drives.
> 
> 2.Modify backup to allow backups from one partition to another?
> 	Backup 255#0  to 255#1    Backup from partition 0 disk 255
> 					    Partition #1 disk 255.
> 

If you start a RAM disk for drives 0-3, you can already run Backups from 
"partition to partition" via the RAM disk.

> 3.Modify basic to understand the new partition structure. At least get
> load/M , run/M and save/M to understand it.
> 
> -Ben
> 
> 

The above may not be as convenient as a revised HDB-DOS but as Boisy has 
said, there just is limited rom in the ROM for major changes.