[Coco] Setting up a hard drive

[Mark Marlette]

Leon,

These are REALLY old drivers. Basically you need to select the driver 
based upon the sector size the drive supports.

SuperDriver, basically connect up the drive, make a boot and it will 
figure everything out for you. As I recall the Superdriver disk is 
bootable as well.

Boisy, care to add anything?

Mark

Quoting Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>:

> Leon Howell wrote:
>> <snip> I have the drivers scsisys_tc3.dr, tcc256.dr, tcc512.dr, 
>> tcc1024.dr, ddh0_88mb.dd, and h0_88mb.dd. Which tcc do I use? Will 
>> the 88 meg descripter work with a 40 meg drive?
>>
> Not correctly. You need a proper descriptor or you won't access the 
> drive correctly even if it seems to work. You can use dmode to 
> examine the 88mb descriptors and then create your own 40meg 
> descriptors with the correct cylinder, head, and sectors-per-track 
> values.
>
>> When I type "load drivername", that works. If I type "iniz h0" I get 
>> an error 237, ram full. Ram full? I have 512k! and the module is 
>> already in ram! I tried linking each module, but it didn't seem to 
>> do anything. I tried chd /h0, and got another error 237.
> It won't work that way for modules that need to be in system space. 
> What you need to do is merge into a single file the driver and 
> descriptors that you want to test. Load the merged file and then iniz 
> the descriptors. You should not get a ram full error.
>
>>
>> SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME !!!
>>
>>
>
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