[Coco] XP-OmniFlop & DSk

[leonard]

Yes!!  You are right.  I formatted the disk again, and then wrote the image
file to the disk.  After it was done omniflop reported that the disk wasn't
full, but that it wrote correctly.  I held my breath during the whole
procedure:).  I then put the disk into my real coco and typed "DOS" and it
worked!!  Omniflop is a godsend to those folks who are running XP when it
works.  Now I have to figure out how to make a boot disk with B&B drivers
for the hard drive, and I'm set!  There is something on the NitrOS9 disk
called boot.burke.  I'm not sure what that is yet.  I'll keep poking around
to see what else is on the disk, but at least it's booting.

Thanks Roger,

Leonard


-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Castello
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:40 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] XP-OmniFlop & DSk

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:24:40 -0700, leonard <leonard23 at verizon.net>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>Roger, I'm using omniflop version j.  I formatted the disk using the device
>descriptor labeled "80/2/18X256(RadioShack CoCo NitrOS9 80 trk DS) 720kb.
I
>assume this is correct for a 3 1/2" floppy.  The disks are the proper type.
>They are not 1.44 Mb.
>
>I then tried to write the image file using the RadioShack Coco NitrOS9 80
>trk DS descriptor for which I had applied for a license.  It actually
starts
>moving it over, but then fails about 1/2 way in.  Maybe I should use the 40
>track descriptors?  I think Omniflop is working, and it's probably
something
>I'm doing wrong?
>
>Thanks for the reply!
>
>Leonard

The 720kb is the right one.  I've found that you might have to write
the image more than once to get it written correctly.

Stephen
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