[Coco] Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer Burke OS9 HardDriveInterface

[Bob Devries]

Hi, Gene, you said:
> So I bought a TC^3 because the disto's incomplete interface couldn't 
> handle two drives.

I have a Disto 4-in-1 here with two SCSI drives on it. Works fine using 
SCSISYS driver.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer Burke OS9 
HardDriveInterface


> On Tuesday 09 April 2013 23:44:21 Stephen H. Fischer did opine:
>
>> 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
>
> Never ever lost a single bit with my disto 4n1.  Only reason I retired it
> was the Maxtor drive was suffering from stiction & was needing a slap on
> the corner to get it started.
>
> So I bought a TC^3 because the disto's incomplete interface couldn't 
> handle
> two drives.  Now I have a couple of 1Gb Seacrate Hawks on it.
>
>
>> ----- 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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