[Coco] Using Toolshed

phil pt ptaylor2446 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 20:44:16 EDT 2020


I need to make a 80 track double sided floppy disk image, Can you please
provide me with a example command line I can use for it please?

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:12 PM Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try this: os9 format -t4340 "Phil.dsk"
> It will make and format an OS9 virtual disk with the following attributes:
>
> Format Summary
>
> --------------
>
> Geometry Data:
>
>       Cylinders: 4340
>
>           Heads: 1
>
>   Sectors/track: 18
>
>     Sector size: 256
>
>
> Logical Data:
>
>   Total sectors: 78120
>
>   Size in bytes: 19998720
>
>    Cluster size: 1
>
> I use a similar command (in a custom makefile) to create a 131mb Nitros9
> Disk that I use on my SDC
> $(OS9FORMAT) -t28425 -q $@ -n"NitrOS-9/$(CPU) Level $(LEVEL)"
>
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