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

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 14 November 2013 21:35:34 David Ladd did opine:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Theodore (Alex) Evans <
> 
> alxevans at concentric.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Now the setup I have is a SuperIDE with CF which supports LBA so no need
> for the CHS, but sadly there might actually still be people out there
> using the CHS based setups that could actually be effected if they
> chose to update to a current build in NitrOS-9 and the CHS is no longer
> supported.
> 
I suppose that is possible David.  So lets ask the question:

Is there anybody here still running a B&B whose drives are still working?

> At least that is my feeling anyway err 2cents worth anyway. :O
> 
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