[Coco] low-level format of CF on Super IDE (i.e. where do the disk images go?)
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com
Wed Apr 29 15:14:22 EDT 2009
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:01:37PM -0500, Boisy Pitre wrote:
> This is "almost" correct. The OS-9 partition goes first:
>
> cat rbfimage.os9 > cfimage.bin
> cat disk1.dsk>>cfimage.bin
> ...
>
> Note that the HDB-DOS 24 bit offset at $D938 would need to point to the
> 512-byte sector where the first sector of the first HDB-DOS disk starts.
> So take the size of rbfimage.os9, divide it by 512 and that's your value
> to put into $D938-$D93A (note that the rbfimage.os9 must be a multiple of
> 512 bytes)
Cool, thanks! And it is OK if there are only a limited number
(i.e. maybe just one) of RSDOS diskette images at the end of the flash?
Just checkin'... :-)
John
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