[Coco] CF Configuration Question

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 June 2013 12:51:58 Retro Canada did opine:

> 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
> 
Or both, no reason the rest of the 256 or 512 meg CF couldn't be used for 
multiple 256 disk vdisk setups.  All at the same time by using different, 
renamed sh.dd descriptors.

> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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