[Coco] OS-9 128MB max hard drive - /sd1

[K. Pruitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:01 PM
Subject: [Coco] OS-9 128MB max hard drive - /sd1


> If I boot in to SDC-DOS, and mount the CoCo SDC NItrOS-9 boot disk in 
> DRIVE 0, and make a blank disk for DRIVE 1:
>
> DRIVE 0,"COCOSDC.NEW"
> DRIVE 1,"NEWDISK.DSK",NEW
>
> Stop me when I get something wrong:
>
> When I boot, I should be able to format /sd1 and use it under OS-9.
>
> I get ERROR #208 (Illegal Service Request) when I try to format it, 
> though.
>
> I wanted to dmode /sd1 to a 128MB max size, then format it and start using 
> it to copy things to. Bob Devries showed me a partition approach, which I 
> may try, assuming tools like "os9" can access files on a partitioned 
> image...
>
> -- Allen
>

Yeah, I posted about this earlier.  The format command no longer works with 
the sdc.