[Coco] Re: Re: Thought

[Charlie]

I have the original disk that came with the SCII, will those drivers work in 
Nitros9 ???
Charlie

"Bob Devries" <bdevries at gil.com.au> wrote in 
message news:006201c4a28e$ca305f40$0701a8c0 at master...
> The disto SCII is no-halt, but you have to use the right drivers for OS9.
> Under DECB, they work as normal, in halt mode.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 4:54 AM
> Subject: [Coco] Re: Thought
>
>
>> Is the Disto Super Controller 2 a no-halt controller?
>>
>> I have one in my coco and Nitros9 gets choppy like you said, doing disk
>> reading/writing.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>> "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger at pobox.com> 
>> wrote
>> in message news:1096048110.25432.66.camel at aragorn...
>> > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:23, Neil Morrison wrote:
>> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > > From: "Mark McDougall"
>> <msmcdoug at optushome.com.au>
>> > >
>> > > > I'm not sure how the CoCo drive works - I'm guessing from your
>> comments it
>> > > > doesn't interrupt the 6809 when data is ready?!?
>> > >
>> > > IIRC the drive HALTs the processor until the buffer is transferred.
>> That's
>> > > why the OS-9 clock gets off time when you do disk I/O.
>> > >
>> > > NM
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yep. Hence the disto no-halt controller. But no-halt is more important
>> > for smooth multi-tasking. I remember being SO disappointed when I
>> > finally got a rig where I could hook up another coco to a shell prompt
>> > on the serial port, and tried some disk commands. Choppy, Ugh...
>> >
>> > OS-9 is really happiest with a RTC... sucks having to enter time in at
>> > each boot. Once we get ethernet we could get time via NTP.
>> >
>> > Actually ability to read the host's time would be a nice feature for
>> > Drivewire as well if it isn't already in there... (my Drivewire is
>> > in-the-mail).
>> >
>> > -- John.
>> >
>> >
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