[Coco] CoCo3 questions / Cloud 9 Super IDE interface

[Christopher Hawks]

Willard Goosey wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:46:12 -0500
>> From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch-coco at 30below.com>
>>
>> Rumor has it that Joel Ewy may have mentioned these words:
>>> Steve.Lancaster at Moorestephens.com wrote:
> 
> First, I want to point out that I've no experience with CF cards or
> their use as IDE devices on the CoCo, so I might be missing something,
> here.

	I do.

>> However, with (maybe) some minor diddling of the .dsk files to extract 
>> *just the raw data*, one could use the dd command in Linux to write the 
>> multple "partitions of floppies" to a CF card that can be used in the 
>> SuperIDE. 
> 
> Since the .dsk files don't have headers or anything, all you'd have to
> do is convince Linux to use the format scheme.  Depending on how
> completely the CF cards emulate a disk drive.  I know Linux can handle
> (with patches) sector-0 based floppies, but I don't know about hard
> drives.

	It's as simple as 'dd if=/dev/sda of=flashimage.dsk' to copy my CF to 
flashimage.dsk.

	'os9 dir flaskimage.dsk' and all the 'toolshed' utilities work fine.

	'setfdparm coco40ds' lets me access coco formatted floppies (DECB of 
os9) as /dev/fd0.

I'm lovin' it!!


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