[Coco] os9 copy failing on large disk images

[Bob Devries]

Hi Gene,

you asked:
> You are still building on the R-Pi?  That of course throws
> another unknown into the morning oatmeal.

I haven't been able to get lwtools to compile on the RPi. :(

Until I do, that's stalled.

I'm still doing this make on CygWin. Mostly it works, but there's an 
occasional glitch.

Regards, Bob Devries

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] os9 copy failing on large disk images


> On Sunday 14 July 2013 22:59:06 Bob Devries did opine:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I find it passing strange that the toolshed command "os9 copy" returns
>> error 248 on disks which are formatted to DW (1024 tracks) standard.
>>
>> Could this be an error where an integer is used, but a long would be
>> better?
>
> No clue Bob.  And I suspect but have no proof that if the os9 copy program
> tries to emulate the wd1773 too closely, then it will run into the fact
> that the track and sector registers in the WD1773 are byte wide, 
> tracks=max
> of 255.  Ditto for sectors.  I haven't looked at that code as it seems to
> Just Work on linux.  But it could be enlightening to look at the code with
> that in mind.  You are still building on the R-Pi?  That of course throws
> another unknown into the morning oatmeal.
>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia
>>
>
> Cheers, Gene
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