[Coco] Ken-Ton Update

[Robert Gault]

Neil Morrison wrote:
> Does OS-9 have any support for 512 byte sectors or is it hard coded
> to 256 bytes?
> 
> Neil
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net>
> 
> ...
> 
>>Most of the drives used 512 byte sectors, some did not and used
> 
> other
> 
>>sizes.  If the sector size is wrong, then you will not be able to
> 
> read
> 
>>or write to the drive until it is reformatted.
> 
> ...
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> 
Even stock OS-9 can support 512 byte sectors but the Tandy version was 
not configured for it. It should be much easier with the current 
NitrOS-9 version to accommodate 512 byte sectors.

The main problem with 512 byte sectors is for RGBDOS/HDBDOS usage. 
RGBDOS does not understand 512 byte sectors. Cloud-9 has enhanced HDBDOS 
so that 512 byte sectors won't break Disk Basic. I think the second 256 
bytes in the data sectors are just ignored.