[Coco] CoCo3 questions / Cloud 9 Super IDE interface

[Gene Heskett]

Willard Goosey wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:00:23 -0600
>> From: Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net>
> 
>> 	I do.
> 
> Lucky.  I'm so broke right now, it's not even funny, but maybe after
> new years I'll be able to spring for CoCo parts, and a CF adaptor is
> at the top of my list.
> 
>> 	It's as simple as 'dd if=/dev/sda of=flashimage.dsk' to copy my CF to 
>> flashimage.dsk.
> 
> What about a CF organized as HDB-DOS "floppy partitions"?  I
> understand the power(*) of dd(1) -- it would need to know the length of
> the file to extract (easy) and the offset into the media to start
> saving at -- calculatable if you know how HDB-DOS set things up.  So I
> guess my real question is, is that technical info included with
> HDB-DOS?
> 
> (*)Some of it anyway, dd is one of those powerful commands that can do
> just about anything, if you ask it the right way.
> 
>> 	'setfdparm coco40ds' lets me access coco formatted floppies (DECB of 
>> os9) as /dev/fd0.
>>
> I am running ancient kernel that doesn't understand 0-based sector
> numbering on floppies. :-(
> 
> Willard
That sounds like fdutils-5.5.  Use 5.4.

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Cheers, Gene