[Coco] Cobbler and ERROR 244 on CoCoSDC

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Jan 23 20:22:19 EST 2015


> On Jan 23, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I also found that if I wanted to rewrite the boot I needed to reset the descriptor settings so that the SPT and T0S values were $0012, and the sid = 1. I would need to revisit what changes I made to get there.
> 
> That way you can safely write the boot track. The changes to the DD, SD0 and SD1 descriptors are just used for re-writing the boot track and OS9Boot (although I have rewritten the OS9Boot file without that step if the file will be the same length, and I'm using KwikGen)

Hmmm. Track 34 must be free, so does cobbler mark it used in the DAM? If the descriptor is set to look like a 35 track floppy drive, it must still use LSN0 to know where the DAM, etc. are.

I will play with that, and then document it.

		-- Allen



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