[Coco] Cobbler and ERROR 244 on CoCoSDC

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 20:43:56 EST 2015


Track 34 is marked as used in the sector allocation table.

If you type "dcheck /dd" you will get 18 warnings about a sector being 
in the allocation table but not in the file system.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 24/01/2015 11:22 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> 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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