[Coco] Progress report my NitrOS-9 Coco 3 System

[John T Chasteen]

Mike

This is the only IDE drive I had laying on the shelf. I bought for my Win
PC then later
I found that IDE couldn't be used so I kept 300GB for a rainy day.
I'll use as much as possible

John
 
On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:25:46 -0700 Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net>
writes:
> Roger Merchberger wrote:
> > Rumor has it that John T Chasteen may have mentioned these words:
> >> Hello Coco Friends
> >> Thanks for helping me to get my COCO3 System operational.
> >> The new IDE hard drive (300GB) mounted in a dual 5.25 inch
> >> pwr supply case with both floppy drives removed.
> >>
> >> Equipment operational is a 512k COCO3, MPI with new PROM,
> >> 300GB IDE drive, Hardware converter to use a Flat screen 
> Computer
> >> Monitor.
> >>
> >> Super IDE interface will allow me to get the IDE drive connected
> >> and operational. I also have to learn more about Cloud-9  
> DriveWire
> >> cable and software.
> >>
> >> Still haven't heard much on utilizing the 300GB IDE drive and 
> dual
> >> boot procedure
> > 
> > <MODE="WideEyed">
> > 
> >   *utilizing* a 300G Drive?
> > 
> > </MODE>
> > 
> > I seriously doubt there was ever that much software available in 
> the 
> > entire history of the CoCo...
> > 
> > That said, the largest partition OS-9 can handle is 4G. FWIU, you 
> can 
> > have multiple partitions of 4G, but how much data do you actually 
> plan 
> > on storing on your CoCo system?
> > 
> > Note: When I say "partition" don't think of it like an MS-DOS or 
> Linux 
> > partition which are delineated in a table - think "manual offsets 
> to 
> > multiple banks of data." If you later put this drive on a PC, it 
> will 
> > for all intents & purposes have "random data" on it, and any PC 
> > operating system won't know there's any "partitions" on the drive 
> 
> > whatsoever.
> > 
> > The "Dual Boot" procedure, assuming you're speaking about RS-DOS 
> and 
> > [Nitr]OS-9, is detailed in the documentation - it's basically 1) 
> > figuring out how many "virtual floppies" you want for RS-DOS (max 
> of 256 
> > - that'll take about 81Meg of storage) calculating the storage 
> offset of 
> > that, and telling NitrOS-9 to start formatting the drive at that 
> offset.
> > 
> > Personally, I'm still debating setting up a 2G laptop drive I've 
> saved 
> > for my CoCo - for my current needs, a 512Meg CF might be more than 
> 
> > enough (with a few extra 128Meg CF cold-swappables in case I need 
> more 
> > "virtual floppies" for RS-DOS, but as I've only used 10 so far... 
> ;-)
> > 
> > Now that you've given us a bit more detail of the hardware you 
> have -- 
> > what are your plans for software? How much are you planning on 
> storing, 
> > and where will you spend most of your time, RS-DOS or NitrOS-9?
> > 
> 
> I'd have to agree with Roger, John... using 300GB is pretty 
> implausible :)
> 
> I'd go with a 2-4GB CF card or microdrive, and put the 300GB drive 
> in a pc!
> 
> -Mike
> 
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