[Coco] Playing around with SuperIDE CF

gene heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Sat Apr 28 21:18:14 EDT 2012


On Saturday, April 28, 2012 09:16:11 PM Mark McDougall did opine:

> On 29/04/2012 1:27 AM, Paulo Lindoso wrote:
> > dd if=cf-dump.dsk of=os9disk1.dsk count=315 (315 512-byte block will
> > yield a 160K disk)
> 
> It's too early in the morning and I'm half asleep atm but 315 doesn't
> look right for a sector count for any disk to me...
> 
> Regards,

That is in the usual 512 byte sectors dd uses by default. dd can, and I've 
done it, use a bs=256, in which case the 35 track SS disk would then be the 
630 sectors you have in mind.

Needs more coffee is my guess, Mark.  ;-)

Cheers, Gene
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