[Coco] just got my CoCo SDC - A beginners guide?

[Alexander Wallace]

I want to thank all for their replies. 

Finally got it working. I ended up using linux with which I’m more familiar, but it can be all be done in Mac as well. 

My CoCo SDC is working great now. I found a 32 gig SDHC and I ended up using that one, more than enough.

Now i need to learn a bunch of things on how to use the SDC and remember and learn new OS9 stuff and all the software i ever dreamed of having for the CoCo.

In the process the CoCo3 crashed real bad, and it would not come back. I opened it up and removed the 512k upgrade card. I’m pretty sure the chips in it were loose, I pressed them all, they moved in and after installing it all back, it worked. It was a nice little adventure.

This is great stuff… 

Thanks all!

> On May 27, 2017, at 7:11 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Alexander,
> 
> If you have a SD card adapter, but the OS doesn't give you the option to
> format it the way you want for Mac, the SD association has a formatter
> utility for both Windows & Mac.
> https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
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> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Alexander Wallace <
> alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You beat me to reply. I had just realized it had ExFat, and saw that if I
>> used MS-DOS(FAT) the CoCoSDC can read it…
>> 
>> This mac does not list Fat32, I’m unsure if MS-DOS(FAT) is what I want to
>> do, since I can’t untar the ultimate collection archive w/o errors…
>> 
>> I’m trying all this in Linux now… But I’m getting closer!
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 27, 2017, at 6:32 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Alexander Wallace wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ok, i have not kept up with SD tech so yea, the 64gig is SDXC as you
>> say.
>>>> 
>>>> Sadly, I just tried a 32g that says SDHC and it’s doing the same thing
>> ;(
>>>> 
>>>> I’m about to try an 8g but seems like the 32g should work…
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What file system is installed on the 32g card (FAT32, ExFAT, NTFS)?
>>> It needs to be FAT32.
>>> 
>>> - Darren
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