[Coco] 720kb Diskettes

[Bill Pierce]

I think you'll find Bob's disks have dns=3, where as the standard drivers are dns=1 or 0. Just "dmode /xx dns=3" and his disks should read.
 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Feb 27, 2016 11:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] 720kb Diskettes

If you can provide a link to at least one disk I can examine it and tell you exactly how to get it to mount. There is also a density setting you may need that has to do with if the disk is 48 tpi or 96 tpi.> Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com > Sat Feb 27 19:24:55 EST 2016> > On Saturday 27 February 2016 18:46:10 Ed Orbea wrote:> > >    I'm finally getting around to accessing via my SDC) the Australian> > OS9 POD library files graciously provided by Bob Devries in Feb 2015> > (yeah, I know it's taken me a year).> >    Bob says that they are 720k diskettes and I am having problems> > getting dmode properly set (either in VCC or SDC) to access the> > drives. Whatever I try just gives error 249.> >    Can I get a  listing of the proper dmode settings?> >    Thanks> >    Ed> > Depending on whether or not the SDC honors the side bit, a 720k disk > would be sid=2 cyl=50 if it does, otherwise I'd try sid=1 cyl=A0.  > Either way is a 720k, 160 track for sid=1, and 80 track if sid=2> > Cheers, Gene Heskett-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco