[Coco] The difference between /SD0 and /D0
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Wed Nov 5 08:55:33 EST 2014
Brett Gordon wrote:
> Hey nick. I'm no expert on OS9, but I believe /d0 and /sd0 are two
> different "pointers" to the same thing - your SDC drive. /sd0 speaks
> LBA mode to your SDC to access large harddrives, and /d0 speak
> old-fashioned track/sector geometry... Does nitros9 return an error
> when accessing these? I'm pretty sure both are linked to RBF, and
> both descriptors expect a RBF filesystem. on drive 0
>
> -B
For what it is worth, the SD0 descriptor contains RBF, rbsuper, and llcocosdc
while /d0 contains RBF and rb1773. Unless the SDC itself does something funny,
there is no way that a call to /D0 should display the contents of /SD0.
Robert
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