[Coco] Preliminary Support for SDC in HDBDOS

[Arthur Flexser]

Gee, Bill, I guess it must have been my imagination that I sold Extended
ADOS-3 for burning into a 16K ROM for a CoCo 3.  Memory plays strange
tricks!

Art

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>
> Kip, as it has been discussed before, a 16k rom would not work wit the
> Coco 3, only Coco 2.
> In the Coco 3, it would overwrite SECB. It would probably take a total
> rewrite of Basic to use a 16k rom there.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com>
> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 25, 2014 9:11 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Preliminary Support for SDC in HDBDOS
>
>
> Hi Brett,
> Maybe there could be an 8K and 16K versions.  I for one have no problems
> whatsoever have a 16K HDBDOS rom image running on my system.  The extra
> space
> would enable it to have all the drivers and features in one giant image,
> would
> it not?
>
> Kip Koon
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Brett Gordon
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 12:33 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Preliminary Support for SDC in HDBDOS
>
> Right now, it assumes a max sized partition, 256 disk.  I have to add one
> more
> method to flesh out the HDB Driver.  I would like some people to test the
> ROM
> out before plopping it by default onto the SDC image.
> If  you try it let me know how it turns out.
>
> I don't think I can fit all the fancy stuff, like Darren's SDCDOS into
> 8K.  And
> I'm pretty sure Boisy and Mark expressed concerns about HDB spreading out
> into a
> 16k image. So the fancy stuff my have to stay on a utility disk.
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That sounds great.  When you get it finalized I can include it in one
> > of the selectable ROM banks as an optional DOS (for future shipments
> > of SDC’s), since there are 6 banks open.
> >
> > - Ed
> >
> >
> >> On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This weekend I was able to hack in some preliminary support for
> >> CoCoSDC into HDBDOS.   This will allow you to treat a SDC mounted hard
> >> drive image in the same manner as the other devices (IDE,SCSI,DW,
> >> etc...)
> >>
> >> I have replaced the only the low-level DSKCON drivers, so HDB can
> >> access the two logical drives. However, HDBDOS cannot do all the
> >> fancy stuff (yet) - mount disk images, list the SD directory.  In
> >> other words, you will probably have to have a config.ini on your SD
> >> card to make SDC auto-mount images.
> >>
> >> I have shared three files here:
> http://sites.google.com/site/cocoboot2/down
> >>
> >> hdbsdccc3.dsk :  cocoboot disk that autoloads the new HDB (coco3)
> >> hdbsdccc2.dsk:   save as above for the CoCo2
> >> hdbsdc.rom:        a new ROM image (set for partition offset 0x000000 )
> >>
> >> There's two ways to try it:
> >>
> >> 1. Burn (flash) the ROM to your device, and boot.  The same directory
> >> has a SDC flashing utility.
> >>
> >> 2. Use the above cocoboot disk to use HDBSDC in RAM.  If the cocoboot
> >> disk fail to boot properly, its probably because you have an MPI, or
> >> a strange configuration.. no worries: CoCoBoot contains a menu-driven
> >> setup program to help you tailor the boot to different setups. (Yes,
> >> it can change your HDB partition offset)
> >>
> >> This is all experimental (but tested).  Shortly, I'll ask for a code
> >> review of my changes to HDBDOS, and maybe they will get pushed to the
> >> repo.
> >>
> >> If you need any help, email me.
> >>
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