[Color Computer][Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[George's Coco Address]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" 

> On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:32, Mark Marlette wrote:
>>Test more than one CoCo on a SCSI drive?
>>
>>That would be a disaster.
>>
Gene said......

> It could be if the driver doesn't have collision detection, which I'd 
> bet the farm none of them do.  I mean, this IS the coco we're talking 
> about here folks. :)
> 
> But the scsi specs themselves do have collision detection as a very 
> important function, for exactly that reason.  For the coco though, that 
> would mean that the middle 16 wires in the cable would have to be used 
> as the handshaking to control that is in the middle of the connector 
> IIRC.
> 
> Does your tc^3 interface support that somehow?

 I betcha ... OS-9 will do it.

 I betcha ... Nitros9 won't.


  Well?

George