[Coco] NitrOS-9 V03.02.01 Release

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Fri May 21 01:41:02 EDT 2004



What sort of floppies are you using? 720K (one hole)?

NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederick D Provoncha" <elderpav at juno.com>


> I forgot to mention that I already have a 3 1/2" drive installed on the
> Coco. So why am I using 5 1/4" disks? Because I haven't had any success
> using DSKINI to transfer the images to a 3 1/2" disk, either. Even if I
> do succeed in executing the command without getting a write error, the
> resulting disk is unreadable on the Coco. I get "Error 249 - Wrong Type"
> 
> When I boot OS-9 using another boot disk and then analyze the problem
> disk, I can DIR the root directory and the DEFS directory, but I get a
> seek error when I try DIR-ing the SYS directory. When I tried DIR-ing the
> CMDS directory, it gave me a 'no permission' error, and when I checked
> the attributes, CMDS is listed as a file, not a directory! Obviously the
> disk is garbled, due to a faulty DSKINI operation I imagine.
> 
> Fred Provoncha




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