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

Theodore (Alex) Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Thu Nov 14 21:18:35 EST 2013


On 11/14/2013 08:10 PM, David Ladd wrote:

> Actually there are some cases if a person is using a older IDE HDD that
> does not support LBA.  In that case those HDD's do use the C/H/S.  If you
> did do away with the need for those values anyone still using HDD's that
> require that...Hmmm people that might even have the old B&B MFM/RLL setups
> might have a problem as the CHS info is now gone.  Though in this day and
> age who would still be using setups like that I don't know.
>
> Though a local computer club I am in one of the members I was a friend with
> died and left me his old setup.  Though whats funny is he was still using
> it as it was, just without a floppy drive controller.  It was running a B&B
> with a 20MB MFM.

A good point, but there is no space for the CHS information in DD.FMT. 
I don't actually remember where it is stored.




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