[Coco] rsdos or pcdos source

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sun Sep 27 16:03:50 EDT 2009


On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 04:56:26AM -0600, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> I think we did have it in there, but I don't think any of us actually  
> got to it as far as making sure it worked with Nitros.

Well, you'd have to reverse-engineer sdisk3 and reimplement whatever
functionality it had that cc3disk didn't.

>I do know it  
> worked well under level 2, abs came with it's own utilities (mscopy,  
> msattr, etc) that allows them  to seemlessly work with either OS9 or  
> FAT-16 systems.

Ohhhh, FAT-16 and not just FAT-12?  Someone was thinking of hard-drive
support.  But first you have to parse the DOS partition table....

I've done a bit of research.  The best discussion of the DOS partition
table I found was on wikipedia, search for "MBR".

Willard
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