[Coco] error 249

[Robert Gault]

Bill wrote:
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> You want information, I will give as much information as I can provide. Actually, I DO have a clean NitrOS-9 formatted disk loaded in my physical drive. And the nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk has been booted using HDB-Dos 1.4 DW3 Coco 3 into DriveWire 4.3.30 (06/13/2013), by a VIRGIN FD-501 Tandy controller controlling a dual vertical set of 3 1/2" drives, and a TRIAD 512K SRAM Upgraded Coco3 with no MPI attached that have shown no signs of errors. The Coco 3, DriveWire 4, and the drives have NOT been showing any OTHER SIGNS of errors. The DMODE settings of the /dn drives running with the nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw.dsk had been modified (DMODE /d0 typ=21 cyl=50) and re-cobbled.
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> The aforementioned 'problem' floppy  disk had been previously formatted using a disk-based version of nos96809l2v030300coco3_dw with no problems. I had copied Bill Pierce's utilities on it, and was trying to access the disk while the Coco was running DriveWire 4.
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> Any more information will be provided upon request.
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While our hardware is not the same, I don't see that the differences should cause you problems.

Which of Bill Pierce's utilities are you using? Does the 249 error occur with a simple
dir /d#
or only when using one of Bill's utilities? If you boot from a disk on your Coco rather than from 
the DW4 disk, do you still get the 249 error?

Robert