[Coco] a quick question

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Wed Dec 26 17:42:48 EST 2007


Neil Morrison wrote:

> Tracks 0 - 34 Directory on 17
> Sectors 1 - 18
> 
> Neil
> 
> On Dec 26, 2007 2:19 PM, John Strong <johnstrong at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't have any of my CoCo docs handy, so I'll ask the experts.
>>How are the tracks, secors and granules numbered on a standard rsdos disk;
>>Dothey start at zero or one?
>>I seem to rember that one of them starts at 1 and not zero.
>>
>>Anyone care to set me straight?John StrongStrongWare
>>

And if that is not enough info, the sectors have a skip factor of 4 
under Disk Basic. That is the sectors exist on a disk in the following 
order: 1, 12, 5, 16, 9, 2, 13, 6, 17, 10, 3, 14, 7, 18, 11, 4, 15, 8.



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