[Coco] RE: Tandy Hard Disk Controller

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Mon Mar 6 00:09:19 EST 2006


    I do know that Ken (of Kenton) had demoed an RS-DOS system at  
Rainbowfest that did have 2 Coco 2's hooked up to one SCSI hard drive...  
but I don't remember any of the details. I would presume it would "just"  
be a driver issue.

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:27:29 -0600, George's Coco Address  
<yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett"
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 5:43 PM
> <snip>
>> 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?
>>
>
>
>  Gene,
>
>  Does this mean that the coco's SCSI interfaces, such as my Kenton  
> cannot support more than one computer on a SCSI drive?
>
>  I'm curious on this. I think it might be fun to connect two cocos on a  
> SCSI drive.
>
> George



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