[Coco] NitrOS9 build errors

Christopher R. Hawks chawks at dls.net
Tue Jan 21 07:13:09 EST 2014


On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:48:04 +1000
"Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps my statement about the images being formatted "wrong" is
> beyond what I meant. Perhaps "inconsistent" is a better choice.
> 
> Allow me to point out a discrepancy:
> 
> kyumgai.dsk is 360k, 1440 sectors and is tagged in the HTML file as
> 48TPI, Double Density, Double Sided.
> 
> kyumgai_becker.dsk is 360k, 1440 sectors and is tagged in the HTML
> file as Drivewire 3/4
> 
> kyumgai_dw.dsk is 360k, 1440 sectors and is tagged in the HTML file
> as 96 TPI, Double Density, Single Sided.
> 
> Perhaps a standard format needs to be chosen for DW disks so that
> they are consistent?
> 

	I'm sorry, I thought your question was:
"Why didn't changing OS9FORMAT_DS80 change these disks??'

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher R. Hawks"
> <chawks at dls.net> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 build errors
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:15:40 +1000
> > "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
[...]
> >>
> >> This is after making the modification to rules.mak regarding
> >> OS9FORMAT_DS80.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure why thses DW disks are formatted wrong.
> >
> > Perhaps because their entry in the makefile uses OS9FORMAT_SS80 (NOT
> > OS9FORMAT_DS80) and they are single sided 80 track double density.
> >
[...]

Christopher R. Hawks
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