[Coco] SuperIDE Quesion

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Joe,

You have to set up the cylinder, head and sector values in the descriptor /i0.  679392 / 16 = 42462, so make:

Cyls = 42462, Sectors = 16, Heads = 1

I think that should work.
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On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Joe wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to set up a 256 Meg CF card for both Nitros9 and HDB-Dos. So this is what I did
> run IDEPROBE LBA size is 500976 Sectors (wrote it down)
> run "wizard" total sectors 500976 etc
> told it I wanted 256 Dos disk
> Offset for Nitros9 was 679392 (told to write this down for nitros9 so I did)
> About 170 Meg so that seems right 256Meg minus 80Meg  for HDB
> 
> saved the final version and ran flash to block 0
> moved MPI selector to slot 3 and restarted
> HDB dos comes up and 256 disks are seen (so far so good)
> Back to MPI slot 4
> insert Superdriver disk and DOS
> Nitros9 boots 
> did a dmode /i0 and see typ is 0x91 set it to 0x81 (Bit 4 off no autodetect)
> Now how do I tell format to only use up to block 679392??
> at this point if I do a format /i0 I get Disk capacity: 260,096 Sectors (about 66Meg) to small
> Do I HAVE to specify C/H/S or will it take LBA? Where do I use the 679392 I dutifully wrote down??
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
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