[Coco] toolshed docs was Re: Reading a SuperIDE Compact Flash

[chawks at dls.net]

On Fri 27/04/12  7:02 AM , Paulo Lindoso paulo.lindoso at gmail.com sent:
> Indeed it works!
> 
> Back to the CF image thread, I did on my Mac...
> 
> dd if=/dev/disk1 of=cf-image.dsk  (disk1 is my SuperIDE CF attached to
> aUSB-CF reader).
> 
> ... and ended up with 256MB file.
> 
> Downloaded and installed toolshed 1.0 (wasn't willing to install
> Mercurial,download toolshed 2 and compile it for mac - yet...).
> 
> decb dir cf-image.dsk,:0 (or any ":")  didn't
> work... either garbageor it hung up.
> 
> Then I thought DECB might be getting confused because the image wasn't
> "organised" as a bunch of disks, so I tried:
> 
> dd if=cf-image.dsk of=disks.dsk obs=4608  (4608 bytes per track,
> right?)
> ... that didn't work either.  Also tried...
> 
> dd if=cf-image.dsk of=disks.dsk obs=9216 (maybe double density, or
> something like that, but NO AVAIL)
> 
> Standard Mac dd doesn't have options such as "ssize" to try and
> re-organisethe file in "more detail" (so to speak), so I guess I will have
> to installGNU dd...
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Cheers,
> Paulo.

    Your CF has a NitrOS9 partition before the DECB disks. DEBC disks start at
HDBDOS offset. That is what I'm looking to add to the Toolshed utilities.

    If you know the offset that your HDBDOS uses, you can tell dd to seek to that
point before reading the input. Then it will work.

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Chris
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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Willard Goosey  irgo.sdc.org>wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:28:28PM -0500,
> Christopher Hawks wrote:> >shows that decb does support a drive
> offset.> >
> > > decb dir mydisks.dsk,:3  -  will show the
> directory of the 4th image in> the
> > > file (or hang if there isn't one). (0 is
> the first and default drive> > number.)
> >
> > Hey, that does work!
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > It would be nice if this was noted somewhere in
> the documentation...> (I just looked through ToolShed.pdf v. 0.9 and
> there was no mention of> this feature...  Apologies in advance if it was
> added to a later> version of the docs.)
> >
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