[Coco] Alternatives to Java Drive Wire.

Alex Evans varmfskii at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 08:31:28 EDT 2019


On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 7:46 AM Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
>
> Also, the CoCoSDC card can be read directly on a Windows PC without extra software, as the format is
> essentially the same as a Windows hard drive. I'd guess it could be used with Linux but don't know.
>
> The CoCoSDC is intended as a complete system not requiring a PC. With a 16GB SDHC card you can have
> an extremely large number of .dsk and .vhd images on the card. However, it will communicate with
> Drivewire via the Coco serial I/O port and can access disk images mounted on Drivewire.
>
> You can read about the CoCoSDC here:  http://cocosdc.blogspot.com/

Modern Windows hard drives are generally formatted with NTFS, but
CoCoSDC uses FAT32. In any case both formats can easily be accessed in
Linux or OS X.


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