[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Shell + 2.2a

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	Thanks for the reply.

	The eliminator was a cartridge that included:

		hardware clock
		2? serial ports
		1 parallel port
		an interface to some kind of st506 & floppy controller
			board

	This "board" is in the case that houses the hard drive. I don't
think it was a PC interface but some kind of "standard" mini-computer
(or other) board (i.e. not custom for the tre). You could hook 4 hard
drives and 3 floppies (or was it 3 hard drives and 4 floppies?) to this
thing.

	Unlike the sardis people (made that dual mode floppy thing), I
?think? Frank Hogg included the source for their driver.

	As an interesting side note:  the 40 Meg 5.25" hard drive I got
with this thing is a MiniScribe. Probably aren't to many of them
floating
around. I powered up the disk enclosure. It seems to be ok (the disk
anyway, no idea about the "board" in the back).

	Can you develop a NitrOS-9 driver using OS9 LII?

					kevin

"Boisy G. Pitre" wrote:
> 
> On Jul 13, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Kevin Diggs wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >       On a loosely related topic, is the eliminator (Frank Hogg Lab st-506
> > disk thingy) supported in this Nitros-09 thing should I ever decide I
> > want to
> > try it (after I figure out a monitor solution for my tre)?
> >
> >                                       kevin
> 
> I don't believe we have a driver for that particular controller in the
> NitrOS-9 repository.  I seem to recall we have the booter though
> (boot_wd1002).  I believe a driver for the eliminator card wouldn't be
> difficult to do, but I doubt there are too many of them floating around
> these days.
> 
> What exactly was the eliminator anyway?   And speaking of the
> boot_wd1002, I recently picked up a brand new WD-1002A-27X ISA card
> with a virtually new Seagate ST-238R hard drive.  It was a pull from a
> very lightly used Commodore PC.  Would the eliminator somehow interface
> with this card?  Doesn't the Burke & Burke interface also interface
> with this card?
> 
> Boisy
> 
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