[Coco] double-sided floppy setup in OS-9

[Bob Devries]

NitrOS9 will certainly be using drivers which have the ability to use 
double-sided drives.

As for injecting files into an OS9 DSK file, I use WImgTool from the MESS 
emultaor successfully. There are other tools also, such as Toolshed.

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Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] double-sided floppy setup in OS-9


>I have OS-9 Level 1 on a CoCo 2 so DMODE won't work for me?  I thought 
>about
> jumping on NitrOS-9.  Would that be easier to set up?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Bob Devries
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:19 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] double-sided floppy setup in OS-9
>
> The ability to use dmode to make double sided drives work depends on which
> version of OS9 is being used. The first versions of OS9 level 1 did not
> support double sided drives at all, and indeed a new driver was written 
> for
> that version.
>
> IIRC, later versions, and OS9 Level 2 did support changing drive 
> descriptors
>
> that way.
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mike delyea" <mdelyea at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] double-sided floppy setup in OS-9
>
>
>> If you can get a copy of dmode you can use it to set your drives as
>> double sided 40 track drives (I'd have to look it up) and then
>> "cobbler" a new boot disk.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm wondering if someone can get me started or point me in the right
>>> direction on this.  I've been predominately a DECB user but have had 
>>> OS-9
>>> for a long time, just never really gotten into it.  I would like start
>>> learning more about it but one thing bugging me is my floppy drive
>>> access.
>>> Currently I have 2 x 5.25 Double sided 5.25 floppies in my FD-502
>>> enclosure.
>>> I'm using modified DECB EPROM to access them as 0,1 for top drive and 
>>> 2,3
>>> for bottom drive.  When I load OS-9, it exhibits the same problem as 
>>> DECB
>>> used to, can only seem to access one side of one drive.  I've heard 
>>> there
>
>>> is
>>> some sort of device descriptor files or something that needs set but I
>>> have
>>> no idea how to go about doing it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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