[coco] For Boisy or Mark ref Super Driver

alsplace at pobox.com alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Sep 17 11:59:15 EDT 2004


Mark,

Yes, this was using the "llktlr" driver Boisy sent me.  I plan to do 
some extensive banging on it.  (Boisy, I have an extra Kenton if you 
need one to test with, though it does not support SCSI parity so it 
won't work on a ZIP or whatever.)

As to the lights flashing, I notice once thing -- during the copy, the 
system gets REAL SLOW.  And this is a good thing since I think it means 
it is blazing data as fast as it's little 2Mhz CPU can handle.  Spiffy! 
  (Made me remember how slow the CoCo is compared to modern systems when 
it comes to doing things like looking at a 64K file or whatever -- wow, 
how times change!)

I will get you the info on my Sandisk 256MB part.  Since I am seeing 
256MB CF parts for $19 lately, I may pick up a few more.  My 128MB (256 
HDB-DOS drives, 45MB for OS-9) isn't large enough on the OS-9 side to 
hold my OS-9 data, so I'll probably step up in size.

And Towel was one of the first things I fired up last night when I got 
stuff copied over.  I immediately came up with a list of things I'd 
like to do to it, and rest assured, updating the Ethawin "TUI" and 
Towel is something I will probably do first since I need it.

     -- Allen




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