[Coco] Posted this pic for retro innovations

Neil Cherry ncherry at linuxha.com
Thu Jan 23 08:49:41 EST 2020


On 1/22/20 1:41 PM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> Let's turn this back into a coco topic
> 
> is 4 the maximum number of physical drives a coco can have, or has someone ever
> patched a DOS  to allow for the use of more drives?
> 
> It seems that if HDB-DOS (RGB dos) allows 0-255 in the way of a harddrive then maybe
> something similar can be done with 4 double sided physical drives (0-7)?

I know through the magic of mux I had 8 drives on an OS9 system. But I don't know
if any of the DOS's supported that. I am also aware of some hackery that allowed
the muxed drives to support up to 16 but I don't think all the drives supported
the extra bit.

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