[Coco] The cobbler "problem"

[Bob Devries]

 > The "cobbler" utility was just hard-coded to expect single or double 
 > sided floppy drives. It was never designed for anything else.

I guess that is why Chris Burke created his own utility for his BNB hard 
disk system, which *did* boot from the HD.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 25/01/2015 5:22 PM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it a requirement to always specify the disk geometry in terms of
>> cylinders and sides?
>
> Just legacy, since that tool was designed to make a bootable floppy drive.  :)
>
>> I thought there was a way to specify that a disk was an LBA device or to
>> have the system query the device for its type and size.  Each of the
>> low-level drivers based on rbsuper (of which the CoCo SDC driver is one)
>> supports the GetStat request code SS.DSize for that purpose.
>
> The "cobbler" utility was just hard-coded to expect single or double sided floppy drives. It was never designed for anything else.
>
> However, in my next post, I will show how you can cobble right now, and only loose about 3K of potential disk space :)
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