[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

Retro Canada retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 20:20:22 EDT 2012


Well with my experience os9gen'ing /ih I get this error: Disk ID Change

The -s (single disk) works but if have to press C several times.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 19:11:17 Retro Canada did opine:
>
>> I do it. I write on my /IH drive. But you need to use os9gen with -S
>> option, otherwise you are going to have a Disk Id Change error.
>>
> Does that not go away with a reboot though?
>
> And I have forgotten what the -S option does.  According to help, that is
> the single drive option, but...  I am not "os9gen"ning to /dd, but to /sh,
> which is pointing at the default floppy image on the hard drive, which is
> $80 such images beyond the end of the os9 partition on /dd.  So I don't
> believe it will be a concern since the first "dir /sh" will cause ioman to
> also refetch the LSN0 info in order to locate the root directory.
>
> Theoretically, problem solved. ;)
> So I'll no nuke all but about 3 of the /n descriptors, which may get me 2
> or 3 pages of ram back.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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