[Coco] Re: dskini.exe problems

[Tim S]

I looked for rawrite_win could not find it, but found ntrawrite.
http://ntrawrite.sourceforge.net/

Tim S

"John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net> wrote in message
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> Boisy Pitre wrote:
> > I'm using a Shuttle motherboard running the latest Windows XP.  In a
> > Command Prompt window, any DSKINI command just sits there trying to
> > write the first sector of the virtual disk to drive A: (a 1.44MB
> > floppy).  The BIOS is set up properly, and I can read FAT16 diskettes,
> > so I'm wondering, does DSKINI.EXE have compatibility issues with some of
> > these floppy controllers built into these condensed Super I/O chips?
> >
> > I would sure like to get this to work.  Any suggestions would be
> > appreciated.
>
> Boisy,
>
> The hardware can read the COCO formatted floppies just fine.
>
> Microsoft has removed the API for changing the sector size.
>
> It would probably be more usefull to provide a way for COCOs under disk
> basic or OS-9 or FLEX-09 to be able to write to 512 byte sectored media.
>
> If you want to persue a Windows based program, look for the source for
> RAWRITE_WIN.EXE that is used to write LINUX boot floppies on a Microsoft
>   Windows system.
>
> It contains a DLL to directly access the floppy drive.  It may be
> possible to use that information to write a DLL that will allow changing
> the sector size.
>
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.network
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