[Coco] Will Cloud-9 Super IDE work with SDC?

[Barry Nelson]

I have used my CoCo SDC in slot 4 with a floppy controller connected to real floppy drives in slot 3 and it worked properly as documented. I do not have a Super IDE interface, but based on what I know of how the multi-pak works, it should not conflict.

On Jul 14, 2015, at 5:59 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:22:00 -0600
> From: Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Will Cloud-9 Super IDE work with SDC?
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> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Mark Marlette wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I see no reason why the two can't coexist together, like someone has
>> already mentioned, the address selection must be different.With that said,
>> I do not own a SDC.
>> Regards,
>> Mark Marlette
>> 
>> 
> 
> The CoCo SDC uses the same addresses as a floppy controller.  I don't own
> an SIDE but am aware that many have used one along with a real floppy
> controller, so address conflicts should not be an issue.
> 
> The main problem I see in using them together would be the different BASICs
> invloved.  The SIDE needs a version of HDB-DOS to access an IDE drive from
> BASIC.  The SDC emulates a floppy controller so it's capable of working
> with any version of Disk Basic, including HDB-DOS.  However, the extended
> commands which allow you see the contents of the SD card and to
> create/mount the disk images contained on the card are only available in
> SDC-DOS.
> 
> You can put a STARTUP.CFG file on the SD card to automatically mount disk
> images when booting the system under HDB-DOS. Another option would be to
> flash a copy of HDB-DOS into one of the empty banks on the CoCo SDC.  That
> way you can boot the system using SDC-DOS, use the DRIVE command to mount
> the desired disk image(s) and then enter RUN @b to re-boot into HDB-DOS.
> 
> If your goal is to use the devices together under NitrOS-9, then start the
> system with the MPI switch set to whichever device has the drive containing
> the OS.  Once you boot into NitrOS-9, assuming the system is configured
> with the required drivers and descriptors, both devices should work
> together seamlessly. There are utilities available (sdir and sdrive) for
> selecting image files on the SD card under NitrOS-9.
> 
> - Darren