[Coco] RE: Tandy Hard Disk Controller

[Mark Marlette]

In all of my years of working with SCSI on the CoCo. I have NEVER seen 
a CoCo host adapter have a SCSI ID.

For many reasons, it is not this simple.



Quoting Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net>:

> L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
>>    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.
>>
>
> It's not a big deal. The drivers are very simple and shouldn't care. 
> Really there are only a few things to worry about:
>
> 1- you need to be able to set each CoCo host adapter to use a 
> different SCSI ID.
>
> 2- you need to maintain proper bus termination.
>
> and
>
> 3- you best not write to the same file(s) at the same time. Multiple 
> reads should be just fine.
>
> Note that you can (technically) also wire up and share floppies in a 
> similar manner.
>
>
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