[Coco] CF Configuration Question

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you have to read the manual not only the superide as well the hdbdos. playing with different sizes mean reflashing the ide flash bank with the good magik number.

but you can keep same rom and magic number and use bigger cd cards. but only 127mb will be used on os-9. but you can create multple 256 vdisks sets

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On 2013-06-26, at 8:42 AM, Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker <ranaur at ranaur.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I`m just starting to play with my superIDE aswell. Why can`t you duplicate
> the CF card with DD? WHat is the minimum/maximum CF card size I can use?
> Can I use a 64MB card (I have one spare at home).
> 
> Happy hacking! :)
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Since I can't seem to 'duplicate' my Cloud9 CF card using dd for Windows
>> or SIDEWalk or Acronis, until I fugure it out (with Mark's help) I decided
>> to try to create brand new CF card.
>> My system is a CoCo3, with SuperIDE in slot 1, Orch-90 in slot 2, SSC in
>> slot 3, Disto II with HDB-DOS & DW3 in ROM
>> I set the MPI selector to slot 4
>> Insert a blank 256mg SanDIsk CF in the SuperIDE slot
>> Power on the system
>> Enter DRIVE OFF to use the physical disks
>> Note: I did not use poke &HFF7F,0
>> 
>> Load IDEPROBE.BAS from the utilities disk run it
>> It shows:
>> logical cyl=980
>> logical heads=11
>> logical sectors=32
>> Total Sectors=501760
>> LBA is supported
>> 
>> Then I load WIZARD.BAS from the HDBDOS disk and run 50000 (I do this
>> becasue I want to use the programming already done by Mark/Boisy).
>> It tells me that I have 339420 sectors available
>> Drive capacity is 122.50mb
>> HDB capacity is 39.38mb (for 256 virtual disks)
>> OS9 capacity is 83.13mb
>> An the 'magic number' is &H53200 or 340480 sectore
>> 
>> Then I boot the SuperIDE OS9 Disk and following the information in
>> "Installing & Configuring NirtOS9 and HDB-DOS", I use dmode to configure
>> /i0 as cyl=be00 sid=7 sct=1 t0s=1 typ=81 and format it
>> After I say no (or even yes) to logical and physical format and enter the
>> drive name, I get an error 250
>> 
>> What obvious thing am I missing?
>> Do I need to locate install the original Disto ROM and configure HDB DOS
>> first? I assumes that I would not have to as I have HDBDOS 1.1a in my FDCC
>> and 1.1d in SuperIDE
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
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