[Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller

[Kip Koon]

Luis,
Since my SuperIDE was working correctly, I have done nothing except take a
part my Coco 3 setup.  It's weird.   I took it back apart again to do more
testing on other coco stuff.  Maybe if I put it back together again, it will
work.  :)  Not very logical, but who knows.  
I thought it might be looking for a second hard drive, so I went and got one
from my old PC parts storage and connected it up.  No joy though.  But come
to think of it, that doesn't make any sense either, because I haven't
changed anything inside the SuperIDE controller since I set it up.  The Coco
3 MPI doesn't work anymore either.  
I also had my Disto Super Controller installed in the same MPI as the
SuperIDE and the Disto Super Controller still works when it's plugged
directly into the Coco 3's cart port.  I tried the SuperIDE in the Coco 3's
cart port, but it does not work there either.  The DECB boot message and the
HDB-DOS 1.1D LBA message appears also.  I can't figure it all out.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:15 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller

its not finding the CF. did you change any jumper on superIDE? try with the
stock 256MB CF.


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Luis,
> Thanks a lot for the files.  I finally got them downloaded just fine.
> I'm having trouble with my SuperIDE controller.  It worked fine 
> yesterday, but after disassembling my Coco 3 MPI to do some testing 
> with other cocos and reassembling my coco3 setup, it's not finding the 
> CF card anymore.  It never gets to the OK prompt on power up with the
cycling curser.  Weird!?!
> I'll keep working with it.  Thanks again, my friend, for the mountain 
> of data.  It will be fun finding out what all you have given me.  Take 
> care and have fun!
> Kip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:29 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller
>
> no there is a green button beside the file (with the 45MB in)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Luis,
> > Do I need to download the Rocket download program just to download 
> > your two files?  I'd rather download the two files directly.  Thanks 
> > for
> the help.
> > Kip
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
> > [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> > On
> > Behalf Of Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:32 AM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller
> >
> > If you want to play with CF cards i just made this multiboot OS-9
> paradise:
> > you get 5 distros in one CF:
> >
> > 512mb cf:
> > http://www.mediafire.com/?uvy4efpmg3lxf8x
> >
> > 256mb cf:
> > http://www.mediafire.com/?sjqde4btjab0c29
> >
> > you can use dd on unix/cygwin to write on your cf or use SideWalk.
> >
> > There is lots of stuff on these images.
> >
> > os distros:
> >
> > OS-9 L1 V2.00.00
> > NitrOS-9 L1 V3.2.9
> > NitrOS-9 L1 V3.2.9 Coco2B
> > NitrOS-9 L2 V3.2.9 6809
> > NitrOS-9 L2 V3.2.9 6309
> >
> >
> > Enjoy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > I hope everyone is doing well.
> > >
> > > I recently acquired a SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller Pak from a 
> > > friend of mine and I need the software and documentation for it.  
> > > I downloaded a doc file for it from Cloud-9, and after reading it, 
> > > I have gotten it to boot off the Compact flash card.  Is that all 
> > > the docs there is for it?  If so, cool.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I love this SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller PAK!  I'm 
> > > running it with my Disto Super Controller and they both cohabitate
just fine.
> > >
> > > I will be playing with an actual hard drive soon.  I expect it 
> > > will take a long time to format an 8.4GB hard drive as a 4GB 
> > > drive.  Man, I don't like wasting all that hard drive storage 
> > > space!  Anyhow, I know this is overkill big time, but I thought 
> > > why not.  It ought to be interesting.  I wonder if
> > > NitrOS-9 will burp, bomb out or crash before it gets to the end of 
> > > formatting that drive.  I plan on formatting every possible LSN 
> > > with
> > > 256 bytes per sector anyway.  Maybe I should use a smaller hard 
> > > drive to start off with during the testing phase.  I'll let you 
> > > all know what happens on my web page.  If you guys foresee a 
> > > problem with this, please let me know.  I probably won't do it 
> > > tonight, but who
> knows.
> > >
> > > Also, I need the software for the SuperIDE controller so I can 
> > > program some other DOS rom images into the flash.  Thank you in
> advance.
> > >
> > > Kip
> > >
> > >
> > >
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