[Coco] Fixing OS-9 format for those that "roll their own"

[Theodore (Alex) Evans]

On 11/14/2013 06:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> I am not convinced the numsides checking is correct for a hard drive.
>
> Why? We access hard drives, or at least the superscsi drivers I use do, by
> addressing the LSN, and the drive is smart enough to figure out the
> side/platter that LSN is on.  So our descriptors should be considered
> complete when they simply say its a hard drive.
>
> Do we have drivers that do care?  That I don't know.  Discuss?

I am with Gene.  I don't get it.  So long as the descriptor settings 
(dmode) match that of the disk what does it matter with a hard drive? 
These only seem worthwhile settings to worry about for removable media 
and even then consistency is the key.