[Coco] Progress report my NitrOS-9 Coco 3 System

[mike delyea]

Perhaps he meant 300mb, which sounds more reasonable.

On 5/11/07, Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
>
> Roger Merchberger wrote:
> > Rumor has it that John T Chasteen may have mentioned these words:
> >> Hello Coco Friends
> >> Thanks for helping me to get my COCO3 System operational.
> >> The new IDE hard drive (300GB) mounted in a dual 5.25 inch
> >> pwr supply case with both floppy drives removed.
> >>
> >> Equipment operational is a 512k COCO3, MPI with new PROM,
> >> 300GB IDE drive, Hardware converter to use a Flat screen Computer
> >> Monitor.
> >>
> >> Super IDE interface will allow me to get the IDE drive connected
> >> and operational. I also have to learn more about Cloud-9  DriveWire
> >> cable and software.
> >>
> >> Still haven't heard much on utilizing the 300GB IDE drive and dual
> >> boot procedure
> >
> > <MODE="WideEyed">
> >
> >   *utilizing* a 300G Drive?
> >
> > </MODE>
> >
> > I seriously doubt there was ever that much software available in the
> > entire history of the CoCo...
> >
> > That said, the largest partition OS-9 can handle is 4G. FWIU, you can
> > have multiple partitions of 4G, but how much data do you actually plan
> > on storing on your CoCo system?
> >
> > Note: When I say "partition" don't think of it like an MS-DOS or Linux
> > partition which are delineated in a table - think "manual offsets to
> > multiple banks of data." If you later put this drive on a PC, it will
> > for all intents & purposes have "random data" on it, and any PC
> > operating system won't know there's any "partitions" on the drive
> > whatsoever.
> >
> > The "Dual Boot" procedure, assuming you're speaking about RS-DOS and
> > [Nitr]OS-9, is detailed in the documentation - it's basically 1)
> > figuring out how many "virtual floppies" you want for RS-DOS (max of 256
> > - that'll take about 81Meg of storage) calculating the storage offset of
> > that, and telling NitrOS-9 to start formatting the drive at that offset.
> >
> > Personally, I'm still debating setting up a 2G laptop drive I've saved
> > for my CoCo - for my current needs, a 512Meg CF might be more than
> > enough (with a few extra 128Meg CF cold-swappables in case I need more
> > "virtual floppies" for RS-DOS, but as I've only used 10 so far... ;-)
> >
> > Now that you've given us a bit more detail of the hardware you have --
> > what are your plans for software? How much are you planning on storing,
> > and where will you spend most of your time, RS-DOS or NitrOS-9?
> >
>
> I'd have to agree with Roger, John... using 300GB is pretty implausible :)
>
> I'd go with a 2-4GB CF card or microdrive, and put the 300GB drive in a
> pc!
>
> -Mike
>
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