new toy!

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Feb 2 19:43:49 1999

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:

> Arond here they are scarce, I have one but it's model that has been reputed
> to be unreliable at best.

Not in my experience.
 
> 8bit IDE is an easy interface though. But the interface is less than half
> the work no matter what.
>
> <But again, if you have the TurboRom - and it is readily available - you
> <have all that.
>
> Turborom doesn't know about IDE or hard disk.

But it does know enough to access the HD and read the boot loader and act
on it. And it then kicks off the Turbo-BIOS and ZCPRnn and whatever BDOS
you are using, and the Turbo-BIOS does know about hard disks. It just
seems to me that if you could make the 8-bit IDE interface look like the
WD1002-HDO interface - same commands and responses - to the BIOS that
everything should fall into place and the o/s wouldn't know or care
whether it was IDE or ST506. Obviously, I am missing something!

> Or you can use P2dos/novados/suprbdos replacements and run a half gig.

Or TurboDOS.
 
> I've been the route. I have three s100 crates with hard disk, an Ampro,
> SB180 and two other in the works so I've been there. FYI my kaypro does
> have a 2mb ramdisk... much faster than hard drive. Just a same that the

Now that sucker must really sing!!!

> kaypro is so slow compared to my other 4mhz systems.
>
> Allison
>

                                                 - don
 
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