[Coco] NitrOS9 build errors

[Bill Pierce]

Tormod & Bob,
Tormod is probobly right here. These disks are meant to be used in the dw gui and dw doesn't care about anything but sectors. Back to back. and  flat out.
In theory, they would never see a "normal" drive, that's what the other disks are for.
At least that's the way it was explained to me when I complained about the sizes of dw dsks being non-standard.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 build errors


On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:15:40 +1000
"Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tormod,
> 
> regarding the DW image files in the build, five files are tagged in
> the HTML file as being 1440 sectors, 360k and yet are tagged as
> 96TPI, Double Density, Double Sided.
> 
> They are:
> 
> kyumgai_dw.dsk
> mm_dw.dsk
> multivue_6309_dw.dsk
> multivue_6809_dw.dsk
> subsim_dw.dsk
> 
> This is after making the modification to rules.mak regarding
> OS9FORMAT_DS80.
> 
> I'm not sure why thses DW disks are formatted wrong.

	Perhaps because their makefile uses OS9FORMAT_SS80 (NOT
OS9FORMAT_DS80) and they are single sided 80 track double density.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tormod Volden"
> <lists.tormod at gmail.com> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014
> 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 build errors
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> >>
> >> Tormod,
> >> Though some seem to disagree, ALL of the repo disks need to be
> >> formatted >> to FULL size upon creation. Sure, it takes up more
> >> space, but there is a reason. (if someone's >> worried about 360k
> >> vs 120k etc, they need a new pooter)
> >
> > I was not talking about space on da pooter, but on the precious
> > space on your floppies which could have been used for other
> > purposes if the disk image was formatted to full capacity. I think
> > you read my note about wasting space the wrong way around.
> >
> > We actually use -e (make full sized image) on all "os9 format"
> > commands (except the DW disks). Aren't they all full size?
> >
> >> All-in-all, the only disk that do not need to be set to full
> >> standard >> sized disk images are the DW and Becker disks.
> >
> > rules.mak agrees.
> >
> > Tormod
> >
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