[Coco] NitrOS-9 and VDGINT

[K. Pruitt]

Wait, what?  The build you described wouldn't have the /sd0 and /sd1 drivers 
installed, but it still boots?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries"
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS-9 and VDGINT


>I sit corrected... I just tried it and it does indeed work.
>
> I *love* my CocoSDC!! Best hardware ever designed to complement my Coco3.
>
> I just wish I could get my hardware clock to work with it :( Working on 
> that.
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>
>
> On 25/01/2015 7:12 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 3:06 AM, Bob Devries  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do here.
>>>
>>> Are you trying to boot a *standard* Nitros9 boot disk, such as 
>>> "nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk" with the CocoSDC active, that is, 
>>> putting that file into one of the two slots of the CocoSDC, and typing 
>>> DOS?
>>>
>>> I doubt if that will work.
>>
>>
>> Yes, that works just fine. CoCoSDC mounts it as a standard floppy disk, 
>> but doesn't take advantage of LBA access mode so it's supposedly slower. 
>> Anytime I can "DOS" to shell in 3 seconds, I'm quite happy.
>>
>> DRIVE 0,"40D_0"
>> DRIVE 1,"40D_1"
>> DOS
>>
>> Then I have /d0 and /d1 -- all in hardware emulation mode using only the 
>> rb1773 driver. CoCoSDC is absolutely amazing.
>>
>> -- A