[Coco] OS9 gen (toolshed)

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jul 5 18:30:19 EDT 2008


Chuck Youse wrote:

> So I'm cobbling (almost literally) together a high-density boot disk for
> this new controller.  Using toolshed, os9 gen keeps placing the boot
> track on track 17 rather than 34 - an artifact of a hard-coded
> assumption of 18 sectors/track.  Shouldn't it read sectors/track out of
> LSN0?
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> C.

Since 17x2=34 it looks like you may not have told the system adequately 
how many sides are on the disk or perhaps the correct density. You need 
to make sure the descriptor for the drive matches the format of the disk.



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