[Coco] CoCoSDC: Using RS-DOS for new .DSK image file size?
Ciaran Anscomb
cocomalt at 6809.org.uk
Fri Dec 19 11:37:38 EST 2014
Allen Huffman wrote:
> >
> > http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/dplus-sdc/README
> >
> > Patching DOSplus for the Dragon to support CoCoSDC.
>
> To "prime" a DSK image for DSKINIT to succeed, issue something like the
> following after creating:
> SWRITE 1,39,18,"",""
> or to expand it to 40TDS:
> SWRITE 1,39,36,"",""
> ----
> What is the SWRITE command? Is that a DOSplus thing?
Yeah, inherited from DragonDOS. That was added to the README after Darren
explained how the auto-expanding worked. Basically the same as DSKO$.
It's needed because of the way DOSplus verifies the format. I might
tweak DSKINIT to automagically expand the disk by writing to the "last"
sector before doing the verify pass. And maybe ditch the verify entirely
- hardly necessary in this case!
..ciaran
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