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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: hard disks
Message-ID: <1122@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 16:59:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: wlbr.1122
Posted: Thu Aug 27 16:59:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 12:36:04 EDT
References: <690@cblpf.ATT.COM> <691@cblpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.UUCP (0000-Pete Lyall)
Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA
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Keywords: OS9

In article <691@cblpf.ATT.COM> mdk@cblpf.ATT.COM (59261-Mike King-x5693) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations for hard disks?  What all do you need
>to get for it to work with a CoCo3?  How do you boot OS9 from the hard
>disk?  Will the new Tandy 20Meg external hard disk work with the CoCo?  Is
>is possible to use an internal hard card in place of a hard disk?

a) Best current configuration is the OWLWARE setup. Plug and go under
level I and II. Also, there's a fellow on the Forum (CompuServe OS9)
that manufactures and markets units that support up to 3 hard disks
and 4 floppies (360/720/1.2) based on the Western Digital 1002-05.
He'll basically sell you what you need (all or some of the
components).

b) Included in a) above.

c) Most systems boot from floppy, and then auto-switch to the hard
disk. This is because the initial boot code is hardwired into the DISK
ROM. Bruce Isted's system does have a boor rom option, though... you
replace your disk rom.

d) Forget Tandy.. (a good general rule anyway). There have been too
many instances of idiots in the stores selling a coco owner something
that couldn't work (forget the disk part #'s). Best bet is to pick up
a copy of the Computer Shopper.. I got a 40 Mb there a few weeks back
for ~$425.

e) Where would you *put* the hard card?? Being that they were designed
for PC/AT bus use, I'd have to say that that's *close* to an
impossibility.



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