[Coco] [Color Computer] Multi-Pak Question

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:04 PM 1/30/2009, you wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, seanrussoct08 wrote:
>
>>I have a quick question.  I have a multi-pak 26-3124 that i bought off
>>of Ebay a few years ago and haven't used it much.
>>
>>I had a friend several years ago tell me that he thought you could use
>>one of these multi-paks to access more than one device at a time, but
>>i didn't think you could.  Could someone settle this for me? and if
>>yes, how do you?
>
>Well, to be precise the computer will only ever access one device at 
>a time.  But, what I believe you're asking is whether you can have 
>more than one cartridge plugged in and have the software get to the 
>one that's appropriate :-).  The answer would be "yes", at least for 
>OS-9.  For example, I have a Tandy floppy controller in slot 4, an 
>HDisk IDE controller in slot 3 and a Burke&Burke MFM hard disk 
>interface in slot 2. The computer is booted with the switch on slot 
>4 for the floppy and start from there.  Once OS-9 (actually, 
>NitrOS9) is up, any or all of them can be gotten to.

Now what if you switched the MPI to the slot you had a ROM Pak in 
containing a disk operating system, but the floppy controller is in 
another slot.  Would the disk operating system be able to use the 
controller as usual.



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Roger Taylor

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