[Coco] Multiple HDB-DOS 256 drive partitions Software Wanted

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 10:29:47 EDT 2013


sweet, so I can make multiple partitions (level1, level2, level2 6309) for
the system and one common for the apps/games.



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:

> Luis,
>
> SuperDriver does allow for multiple partitions on the same device by using
> the WPC byte and OFFS word in the device descriptor as a 24 bit offset from
> the beginning of the drive. That value is added to every sector passed to
> I$Read and I$Write.
>
>
> Merci,
> Boisy
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
> retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > afaik you cannot create more than on os-9 partition since it begins from
> > bottom-up. how can you put two LSN0 ?
> >
> > the thing you can multiply is the 256-RGB disks, by poking a new hdb-dos
> > offset. Check the last image I sent to you, it has a second 256-disk
> > partition for mod player.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> Now that I have figured out how to poke the MPI slot register to
> activate
> >> the Floppy drives under HDB-DOS 1.1D LBA rom image in the flash memory
> of
> >> the SuperIDE, I want to experiment with multiple HDB-DOS 256 Drive
> >> partitions and some type of Huge Disk cataloging program to index all
> the
> >> partitions in one big database file.
> >>
> >> I have a 4BG hard drive connected to the IDE connector to try my hand at
> >> formatting what I understand is the Largest hard drive capacity NitrOS-9
> >> can
> >> handle.  It has over 8 million LBA sectors on it.  I might have to
> >> partition
> >> the HD into multiple NitrOS-9 partitions, but I'm going to try one huge
> >> partition first after the HDB-DOS 256 Drives are setup.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to find a DB9F solder connector in my spare RS-232 parts
> and/or
> >> cables, but so far I have found nothing compatible yet.  I know it's in
> >> storage somewhere.  I want to get Drivewire 4 Server communicating with
> my
> >> Coco 3 SuperIDE setup.
> >>
> >> Well, everyone have fun at the CoCoFEST.  Please let us all know about
> the
> >> video feed so I watch it this year.  I had forgot about the video feed
> last
> >> year, so I missed all the action.
> >>
> >> Take care all and have fun Cocoing!
> >>
> >> Kip
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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