[Coco] [COCO] SDCDOS 1.2 and CoCoSDC Problem

David Ladd davidwladd at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 22:34:22 EST 2015


Allen are you testing on a CoCo2 like I was or on a CoCo3?

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> I just tried this at home. I also get an I/O error on stock SDC-DOS.
>
> But, I thought it worked the first time:
>
> DRIVE 0,"SDFTEST.SDF",NEW+
> DSKINI 0
>
> That seemed to work fine. But later, I looked at the DIR" and saw that was a 0K file, so I madeit a second time:
>
> DRIVE 0,"SDFTEST.SDF","NEW+
>
> And when I check now, I see 261K.
>
> DSKINI 0
>
> ...and I/O ERROR after a bit. .SDF file is still 261K.
>
> I did a fresh reboot, and repeated with a different file name and get the IO ERROR again so my first one must have been a fluke.
>
>                 -- A
>
>
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 5:05 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Darren,
>>
>> I did some testing and the CoCoSDC works fine on my CoCo3 as far as
>> this DSKINI0 or DSKINI1 on a SDF disk image.
>> The problem I am having is using on the CoCoSDC when I use it on my
>> CoCo2B.  When I do either of these two as follows:
>> DRIVE 0,"TEST.SDF",NEW+
>> DSKINI0
>>
>> or
>>
>> DRIVE 1,"TEST.SDF",NEW+
>> DSKINI1
>>
>> I get a IO error after the LED blinks 35 times.
>> This seems to only fail on my CoCo2 system.  Like I said it does work
>> on my CoCo3 just fine.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:04 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok I got a off the wall problem.
>>> Following the directions on the SDC website I attempt to create a SDF
>>> disk image on my SDC. I am using the CoCoSDC on my CoCo2B.
>>>
>>> I do the following:
>>> DRIVE 1,"TEST.SDF",NEW+
>>> DSKINI 1
>>>
>>> After a few seconds DSKINI 1 returns with a IO error.
>>> I even tried this in drive 0 and am getting the same result.
>>>
>>> Is there something I am doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help in advance on this. :D
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