[Coco] Remembering your CoCo Repacks

[Alex Evans]

I used an ST296N with my Disto 4-in-1. This is a SCSi-1 drive. I simply
reformatted (real physical reformat) the drive to use 256 byte sectors.
Some drives would allow this, some wouldn't. In any case the current batch
of drivers support devices with 512-byte physical sectors and using both
halves of those sectors.


On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:49 AM Bruce W. Calkins via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

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> On 10/31/22 11:19, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
> >
> >> On Oct 31, 2022, at 7:32 AM, Francis Swygert via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >> …
> >> My main point is that with even IDE drives being hard to find, there
> are still many SCSI drives available under $100 that would be suitable for
> a CoCo (I checked NewEgg.com). I really liked
> >
> > I had no idea SCSI survived. I have noticed some of my USB devices
> identify as SCSIsomething in my Mac, so the protocol seems to be alive and
> well. Interesting. I wonder how much faster using a physical SCSI would be
> versus the modern SD card interfaces and such. Can we even use the speed?
> An SD card certainly has more storage than we could ever use.
> >
> SCSI has gone through several iterations.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI>  I have not followed comparability
> between the generations however.  I did once connect a SCSI 1 drive to
> my Disto hard drive interface.  It was limited to the accessing the
> first 256 bytes of the 512 byte granules.  I never did find a way to see
> the other half of those granules.
>
> I generally ran the system with an Adaptec SCSI-2-MFM card with 2 big
> MFM drives.  It is still set up, but has been in storage 18 years now.
>
> Bruce W.
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