[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 11, Issue 104

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 17:17, Robert Gault wrote:
> John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

> One simple approach is to use the command DSKI$ to copy all of the 
> sectors of track 34 to strings and save the strings as data on a tape. 
> Then write a program to read the data strings off the tape and store 
> each byte of data to memory starting at $2600 until the data is used up. 
> You then would indicate EXEC&H2602. If you are not sure the data 
> transfer was good, you can include a quick and dirty test to check that 
> the values at $2600-1 are the characters "OS" and if not don't EXEC&H2602.
> 

A good strategy, very helpful: a little more detail than I had off the
top of my head, but along the lines of what I'm thinking.

I wouldn't have to worry about the data coming off the tape, since it's
checksummed. It with either load or it won't.

My immediate problem: my old floppy drive is out of alignment so I can't
read anyone else's disks, and my old OS-9 Level II boot disks are lost
in the garage.

Hence my request for someone to send do the DSKI$ thing on track 34 of
one of their diskettes and send me those bytes.

Thanks for the helpful response,

-- John.