[Coco] OS-9 128MB max hard drive - /sd1

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 23 January 2015 09:57:39 Allen Huffman did opine
And Gene did reply:
> > On Jan 23, 2015, at 6:57 AM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > If I use /sd1, I get Error #244 Read Error.  I just did a fresh pull
> > from the repository and did a make clean make dskcopy so I am
> > definitely using the most current build.
> 
> From my experiments last night ... The #244 is what is returned when it
> tries to read sectors that are not in the file. By default, SDC-DOS
> makes a 156K file. OS-9 writes out whatever it takes to format, but
> the rest of the file does not exist so anything that seeks past the
> end of the file returns #244. I used dEd to verify this.
> 
> I need a way to expand the file from OS-9. Sadly, my BASIC09 and
> assembly attempts have not been successful.
> 
> 		-- A

Basic09 is probably the easiest wat to do it. Check the bits in the open 
perms, you want read+writ=update.  Then you should be able to write past 
the end of the current file.

Subject to the disk size spec'ed in the descriptor of course.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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