[Coco] large HD in OS9/68K

[Brian.Kitt at i-structure.com]

I think I have oddjob on disk, but right now my MM/1 is down.  I'll let you
know when I get it back up.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Devries [mailto:bdevries at gil.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:19 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] large HD in OS9/68K


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



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