[Coco] Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer Burke OS9 Hard DriveInterface

Stephen H. Fischer SFischer1 at Mindspring.com
Tue Apr 9 23:05:14 EDT 2013


Hi,

Been there, done the same.

But with Disto's SCSI hardware.

I finally, after the DISTO controller died, I came to the conclusion that it 
was the connector to the CoCo that was involved.

I may have also have had the same problem with floppy disks. Common, the 
Disto controller.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer Burke OS9 Hard 
DriveInterface


...
> The problem was that when it needed to read the FAT looking for enough
> clear space to create the next file, somewhere in the reads, this thing
> handed os9 a sector full of zero's.  So os9 happily re-used what it 
> thought
> was free disk space.  I have a later one, in the gold colored folded sheet
> metal case, that has never ever dropped a bit.
...
> Cheers, Gene




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