[Coco] 8GB MicroSD Drive Pak

[Richard Ivey]

Will mine be the 8 gigger?  Feel free to fill that card up.. plus I have a
lot of .dsk stuff also

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Roger Taylor <taylor at newfoal.com> wrote:

> This is a MicroSD Drive Pak update.  I'm still working to catch up on
> overdue orders and have also obtained the new firmware update for the card
> module that increases the capacity from 2GB to 8GB.  All paks shipped from
> this day forward (including due orders) will be upgraded to 8GB capacity,
> and it's a only firmware change so there's no additional costs except if I
> ship 8GB cards.  As of now I'm shipping 2GB cards with all 2GB orders and
> maybe soon someone can merge their wonderful card image into my distribution
> card image and let me use the new image on my 4GB or 8GB cards.
>
> SOME past customers may be able to upgrade their Drive Pak to 8GB capacity.
>  You'll have to open up the case and see if there's a 5-pin header for the
> uDrive module.  If it doesn't, you can still upgrade your pak.. just get
> with me for help.  There's a USB to TTL cable you can order from 4D Systems
> that you run to your pak's header and the rest is easy.
>
> If someone has a card image significantly different than my 2GB image and
> they don't mind me merging it with my image, it would be a sector-for-sector
> copy into the 2nd 2GB range but the partition entries from your image would
> have to have a new base LSN added and of course the entries must be appended
> to the partition table on my card.  That should work.
>
> More news...
>
> CoCoNet 2.x will emulate the MicroSD Drive Pak protocol for all other mini
> paks such as the Cable Drive Pak, USB Drive Pak, and Wireless Drive Pak.
>  So, that's 4 different kinds of Drive Paks each having it's own memory
> access method depending on your budget or PC capabilities.  Each Drive Pak
> runs off of a single smart version of the CoCoNet ROM.  No confusing custom
> ROM builds are required.  CoCoNet detects what compatible paks or cables you
> have and you're ready to go on boot with multiple drive systems.  The USB
> Drive Pak is a 230400 bps pak, MicroSD is 230400 bps, Wireless is 115200
> bps, and cable is 115200 8-N-2.
>
> The smoke and mirrors is now clearly a well-developed SYSTEM that almost
> any CoCo can add by plugging in a single mini pak of your choice.  "No
> Thinking Required" <-- unofficial trademark  :)
>
> Thank You
>
>
>
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