[Coco] Issues with NitrOS9 build

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 25 January 2014 12:09:57 Robert Gault did opine:

> Bob Devries wrote:
> > Well, I got it to work, but I fail to understand why.
> > 
> > I changed offset $10 (DD.FMT) in LSN 0 from $07 to $03, and it boots
> > correctly.
> > 
> > That change makes the disk a 48TPI instead of 96TPI.
> > 
> > Why does the TPI setting have *any* effect on the operation especially
> > in an emulator. *something's* not right here.
> > 
> > Regards, Bob Devries
> > Dalby, QLD, Australia
> 
> Strange, I just looked at the repository and don't see why the DD.FMT
> should be 96tpi. Rules.mak defines 80-track disk as follows.
> 
> OS9FORMAT_DS80	= os9 format -e -t80 -ds -dd
> 
> Unless lwtools has changed I don't see why DD.FMT changed on your disks.
> 
> Robert
> 
Could we see the output of dmode from that descriptor?
> 
> 
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