[Coco] Fwd: Re: [COCO] ADOS3 & CoCoSDC? WAS: Preliminary Support for SDC in HDBDOS

Tim Fadden t.fadden at cox.net
Fri Jun 9 14:43:30 EDT 2017


If you are referring to doing  a dir, mounting and unmounting sdc disk 
images via os9 commands, Yes! look for:

Coco SDC Utilities (Barry Nelson) (OS-9).zip

On 6/9/2017 8:41 AM, CoCo Demus wrote:
> Do we have os9 commands for that ?
>
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Arthur Flexser<flexser at fiu.edu>  wrote:
>
>> David, since I gave away all my CoCo stuff about a decade ago, there is
>> zero chance of a patched ADOS that can deal with disk images on the SDC,
>> alas.  From me, anyway.
>>
>> Art
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:30 AM, David Ladd<davidwladd at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Art,
>>>
>>> Would there be any plans of maybe patching ADOS3 and/or Extended ADOS3 to
>>> be able to mount/unmount disk images on the CoCoSDC?
>>>
>>> Just thought I would ask just in case it already hasn't been. :D
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Arthur Flexser<flexser at fiu.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill Pierce
>>>>> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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>>>>> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
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>>>>> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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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
>>>>> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
>>>>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----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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>>>>>>> beretta42 at gmail.com
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