[Coco] SuperIDE Quesion

[Joe]

UR the man, I'll give it a try.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] SuperIDE Quesion


> Joe,
>
> You have to set up the cylinder, head and sector values in the descriptor 
> /i0.  679392 / 16 = 42462, so make:
>
> Cyls = 42462, Sectors = 16, Heads = 1
>
> I think that should work.
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> On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Joe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to set up a 256 Meg CF card for both Nitros9 and HDB-Dos. So 
>> this is what I did
>> run IDEPROBE LBA size is 500976 Sectors (wrote it down)
>> run "wizard" total sectors 500976 etc
>> told it I wanted 256 Dos disk
>> Offset for Nitros9 was 679392 (told to write this down for nitros9 so I 
>> did)
>> About 170 Meg so that seems right 256Meg minus 80Meg  for HDB
>>
>> saved the final version and ran flash to block 0
>> moved MPI selector to slot 3 and restarted
>> HDB dos comes up and 256 disks are seen (so far so good)
>> Back to MPI slot 4
>> insert Superdriver disk and DOS
>> Nitros9 boots
>> did a dmode /i0 and see typ is 0x91 set it to 0x81 (Bit 4 off no 
>> autodetect)
>> Now how do I tell format to only use up to block 679392??
>> at this point if I do a format /i0 I get Disk capacity: 260,096 Sectors 
>> (about 66Meg) to small
>> Do I HAVE to specify C/H/S or will it take LBA? Where do I use the 679392 
>> I dutifully wrote down??
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
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