[Coco] Updated KenTon SCSI drivers for OS-9?

mmarlett at isd.net mmarlett at isd.net
Tue Sep 14 17:26:10 EDT 2004


Al,

Well, I spoke with Boisy on this today and he was busy. :) I'll wait for
him to speak up......Boisy???

Wouldn't surprise me that the SuperSCSI package hung the system. I'm not
saying our stuff is perfect either but we do still support it. :)

Watch out what you wish for.......... :)

Mark
Cloud-9

>Well, I spoke too soon.  When I woke this morning, the CoCo was locked 
>up copying files from the Kenton to the SuperIDE.  CLEAR would blink 
>the cursor (so the system was alive) but I could not break out of 
>anything.  It hung in the Kenton code, I think, because even after 
>reboots the Kenton still was locked.  I had to power down the drive 
>(SyQuest EZ-135) and restart everything and then it was fine.
>
>So, still some problems there preventing me from copying all the old 
>SCSI to IDE, but getting closer.  Now that I have a more stable system 
>I am going to try to put the SCSISYS in the boot (I've been loading it 
>on startup) and see if that helps.
>
>Once I get all of this archived to a CD, I will feel much better -- 
>between the stuff on this hard drive, and my floppies, that's 
>everything I have ever done on the CoCo.  A secondary goal will be to 
>try to archive all of my floppies.  WHew.  That's going to be a big 
>task.  HUNDREDS!!!
>
>     -- Allen
>
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