[Coco] CoCoNet evolving

[gene heskett]

On Saturday, April 30, 2011 05:53:15 AM Bob Devries did opine:

> Gene did opine:
> > mainly because the scsi interface was a 1 drive only interface
> 
> HUH? I have a 4-in-1 with two drives attached and working wonderfully
> using the SCSISYS driver.
> 
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia

All I could ever get were instant deadlocks when I added a 2nd connector & 
connected an identical drive set for the next address.  With the 34 wire 
cable split so as to hit only the outside 17 pins on each end of a 50 pin 
IDC header at the drive end of the cable, all the interdrive handshaking 
signals are dead ended.  I suppose one could fab a short 16 wire cable to 
jumper those missing connections from just the drive to drive, but when I 
asked on the list probably a good ten years ago, no one replied with usable 
info.  So I threw money at it & bought a TC^3, which has worked well except 
for my attempt to add an elderly cdrom reader.  Its still in the drive 
tower but disconnected.  And I don't have a cdfs driver either, which might 
make it work.  But then I'd need to figure out how to burn cdroms for it, 
and every day life got in the way.

Suitable motivated I suppose dw4 could be configured to point at the burner 
in this machine so the coco could access it.

But I'm still looking for a suitable artwork pattern to make some round 
tuit's on my milling machine, which seem to be in very short supply, 
everybody is always looking for one.  Something I could scan & run through 
potrace to smooth it up, scale for size & make into alu disks about 50 cent 
sized would be nice.  :-)  But what I have found for patterns contain about 
100x the text it needs and would be difficult to reproduce on a mill with 
imperfect backlash comp.  It would wind up looking like the small text mode 
of a cgp-115, which is almost unreadably distorted on mine.

-- 
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