[Coco] LSN0 C code

[Bob Devries]

Stephen Fischer wrote:
> Note: I am one of the very few CoCoers that had 80 Track Double Sided 5 - 
> 1/4" floppy drives

I'm one also. I have two TEAC 5.25" drives. These drives could be made 
switchable between 80 and 40 track, which is what I did, and regardless of 
much discussion to the contrary, I never had any trouble.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] LSN0 C code


> Hi,
>
> Works! Thanks.
>
> I compiled it and tried "lsn0 /d1". An 249 Error due to mismatched DNS is 
> given by "FREE /D1" or "cd /D1" while lsn0 just does it.
>
> Note: I am one of the very few CoCoers that had 80 Track Double Sided 5 - 
> 1/4" floppy drives.
>
> Thus I had to get DNS right on all my disks with DNS=3 and DNS=3 in the 
> drive descriptors.
>
> I could put ANY OS-9 disk in the drive and with the double stepping of the 
> floppy device driver all could be read with out changing the drive 
> descriptor.
>
> I wrote a shell script to allow formatting of the various lesser formats 
> while not changing the drive descriptor. (Bulk Eraser Needed!)
>
> Transferring the disks to *.dsk files has been problematic as some 
> utilities convert the DNS=3 to DNS=1 and some do not causing problems.
>
> I added the source for lsn0.c and it's binary to SHF841.zip Plus the 
> binary for dnc (Disk name Change)
>
> http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/
>
> SHF
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 2:30 PM
> Subject: [Coco] LSN0 C code
>
>
>> Since the code is quite short, I'll include it inline here:
>
>
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