[Coco] Crunch?

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Thu Jun 4 21:13:22 EDT 2009


Paul Fitch wrote:
> Actually there is no error, just nothing happens when I try to do a dir.
> When, under DECB, I dir an OS9 disk, I get garbage, followed by ?FS ERROR.
> 
> When I dir and empty drive, I get ?IO ERROR.
> 
> When I dir the Urbane disk, I get nothing.  Just one blank line, then the OK
> prompt.
> 
> Under OS9, using "RSDOS -dir /d2" it returns 
> Free granules:68 
> 

That's exactly what should happen if VCC takes the disk geometry from 
T0S1. VCC can't find the directory because it is looking at the wrong 
track and sector. Coincidentally, the sector is blank so there is 
nothing shown in the directory.



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