[Coco] Need Help With My SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 00:32:10 EDT 2013


If you want to play with CF cards i just made this multiboot OS-9 paradise:
you get 5 distros in one CF:

512mb cf:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uvy4efpmg3lxf8x

256mb cf:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sjqde4btjab0c29

you can use dd on unix/cygwin to write on your cf or use SideWalk.

There is lots of stuff on these images.

os distros:

OS-9 L1 V2.00.00
NitrOS-9 L1 V3.2.9
NitrOS-9 L1 V3.2.9 Coco2B
NitrOS-9 L2 V3.2.9 6809
NitrOS-9 L2 V3.2.9 6309


Enjoy



On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I hope everyone is doing well.
>
> I recently acquired a SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller Pak from a friend of
> mine and I need the software and documentation for it.  I downloaded a doc
> file for it from Cloud-9, and after reading it, I have gotten it to boot
> off
> the Compact flash card.  Is that all the docs there is for it?  If so,
> cool.
>
> Anyway, I love this SuperIDE Hard Drive Controller PAK!  I'm running it
> with
> my Disto Super Controller and they both cohabitate just fine.
>
> I will be playing with an actual hard drive soon.  I expect it will take a
> long time to format an 8.4GB hard drive as a 4GB drive.  Man, I don't like
> wasting all that hard drive storage space!  Anyhow, I know this is overkill
> big time, but I thought why not.  It ought to be interesting.  I wonder if
> NitrOS-9 will burp, bomb out or crash before it gets to the end of
> formatting that drive.  I plan on formatting every possible LSN with 256
> bytes per sector anyway.  Maybe I should use a smaller hard drive to start
> off with during the testing phase.  I'll let you all know what happens on
> my
> web page.  If you guys foresee a problem with this, please let me know.  I
> probably won't do it tonight, but who knows.
>
> Also, I need the software for the SuperIDE controller so I can program some
> other DOS rom images into the flash.  Thank you in advance.
>
> Kip
>
>
>
>
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