[Coco] os9 dsk

[mike delyea]

Yes, I believe they are dmk images.  They will boot on the other guys
emulator (can't find his name anywhere) but not jeff's.  I think I may have
the problem solved however upon further reading of the manual.  I have
prepped an old IBM with DOS and a 5.25 inch floppy and hopefully I'll be
able to just copy the disks over using the actual floppy and instructions
found here.

http://discover-net.net/~dmkeil/trs80/trstech.htm#Technical-REAL-disks

On 3/30/07, Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net > wrote:
>
> mike delyea wrote:
> > I have os9 level 2 on .dsk files.  I converted them using dskini from
> Jeff
> > Vavasour and then discovered that they wouldn't boot and neither would
> the
> > .dsk file.  I noticed that when converting to real disk it said there
> were
> > 48 tracks rather than 40 or 36.  Also the dsk images are 224k rather
> than
> > 160k.  Anybody know whats happening?
> >
>
> Could be they are double sided 40 track images that were not filled out
> to the full 80 tracks. That could account for the unexpected size.
> Alternatively, the image may be a single sided .dmk type image which
> includes the system information as well as the sector data within the
> image. That would also account for the unexpected size.
>
> If you post the source of the images, we will have a better chance of
> correctly guessing the nature of your problem. If you examine the images
> on your PC with a raw file editor, you can determine for yourself what
> type of image you have.
>
> That the images don't boot could be a completely different issue. Have
> you examined the floppies using dcheck? Have you checked the OS9Boot
> file with Ident? Do you have any idea what is the target of Boot in the
> kernel on track 34? Is cc3go looking for /D0 as the default drive or
> something else like /H0? If cc3go is looking for /H0, is there a hard
> drive on your system and is there an appropriate driver in the OS9Boot
> file?
>
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