[Coco] Re: RGB-DOS & SCSI Hard Drives

Mark Marlette mmarlett at isd.net
Thu Dec 18 19:58:59 EST 2003


At 02:13 PM 12/18/2003 -0300, you wrote:

Richard,

What I meant was the difference between RGB-DOS and HDB-DOS. Sorry for the 
confusion.

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9

>Hello Mark
>
>Are you saying that the MAC drives are better?
>
>On 12/18/03, Mark Marlette wrote:
> > At 02:11 PM 12/17/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > Can't speak for the RGB-DOS exactly. I can tell that it was feature
> > lacking, things that were partially implemented when we acquired it. AS
> > far as the format. ?? HDB-DOS works and Boisy has put a lot of work into
> > this package..... I use MAC drives all the time. Night and day difference
> > between the two. Supports the Ken-ton too.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Well guys, I got my lot of lower sized SCSI hard drives in. They range
> >> from 40MB and up. I've tried all the 40MB and 80MB hard drives with the
> >> Ken-Ton and success, when I discovered that I needed to disable the
> >> parity, they would work and be detected. But whenever I try to run the
> >> format program to format the hard drive, I get an error message after
> >> entering in all the technical information (and I gather this info from
> >> hd-utils in turn which reads it from the hd itself). I gives an IO error
> >> when it tries to format any of them and when I try the re-initialize
> >> drive option in HD-Utils it gives a different error message everytime I
> >> try a different drive. These were all at one time drives in old Apple MAC
> >> machines. Would this have anything to do with it?
> >>
> >> -Chris
> >>
> >>
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