[Color Computer][Coco] Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Boisy Pitre]

On Mar 4, 2006, at 6:18 PM, George's Coco Address wrote:

>
> ----- 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?

What???

Boisy