[Coco] Reading CoCo Media from a PC

[Joef6809]

Its fairly trivial to get low level hard disk access under windows NT et al. 
However the file system will make no sense to OS9. (FAT 16 for cards under 
2GIG ,FAT32 or NTFS for 2Gig or more) Once I get my SuperIDE controller 
going I'm planning on doing a glenside IDE module for VCC that will be able 
to mount read CF cards. The plan is to make it compatible with the SuperIDE 
controller and allow the card to be moved freely between real and emulated 
hardware.

>From Hell's heart I STore Accumulator B at thee!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Reading CoCo Media from a PC


> If there is some way to access a device like a CF card in RAW mode, then 
> it would be fairly trivial to write software to access the card to get at 
> its contents.
>
> Sadly, I don't have the required information for that. :(
>
> Something similar to OS-9's "/H0@" perhaps?
> This gives sector-based access to the drive in raw mode, ignoring the file 
> system.
>
> Does such an access mode exist on the PC? Given M$'s propensity with 
> denying access to the hardware of any computer that runs Windoze, I doubt 
> it would be easy, and would probably require a specially written DLL.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Diego Barizo" <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>
> To: "CoCo List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:29 PM
> Subject: [Coco] Reading CoCo Media from a PC
>
>
>>I know there are a few tools that let emulators read real CoCo diskettes.
>> Is there any similar tool that would allow me to access a CF card used 
>> under HDB-DOS or NOS-9?
>>
>> Diego
>>
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