[Coco] large HD in OS9/68K

[Bob Devries]

David said:

> While we're on the subject of drives..  What are the params for your
> floppy drives on the MM/1?  The reason I ask - I sent this q to
> comp.os.os9, but never saw the message - looked on google for it, too -
> but mine are 34 (I believe) SPT, but the big rub is that the sector
> count starts at 0 .  I got the idea one day to use the fdutils in Linux
> and make .dsk images of all my floppies and store them on CD.  Then, if
> a floppy went bad, I could recreate it.

My MM1 drive is set to 33 spt starting with sector 0. So that's 0 - 32.

> Another option, I suppose, would be to use some other standard format -
> maybe the "universal" format for these setup disks?

I got caught using an 'odd' setup. However, it was as large as I could get
onto a floppy.
80 trk, 2 sid, 10 spt, and 1024 bytes/sector. That gives ~1.6MB. Oh, the
'got caught' was because I didn't record just what format I'd used, and
couldn't remember it at all. The Anadisk programme reminded me what it was.

BTW, I don't suppose you hve the OddJob (oj) programme on your MM1? I've
lost mine, along with a bunch of other files off my original disks.

Regards, Bob Devries; Ipswich, Queensland, Australia