[Coco] Frustrated

[Stephen H. Fischer]

-------------------------> EDIT with location of the program. 11 PM.

In addition to the documentation that will be offered, there are at least two utilities that will read the "LSN0" of a floppy and tell you the matching DMODE values for the floppy.

LSN0 can be read for disks that the descriptor does not match by these programs.

I the one I got from RTSI many decades ago was named "LSN0" and is on my NitrOS-9 survivable disk, SHF888.zip on my WebPage http://home.mindspring.com/~sfischer1/ 

Neither program had good names IMHO.

SHF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard E. Crislip" <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 8:46 PM
Subject: [Coco] Frustrated


> Hi all,
> 
> As the subject says, I'm a little more than a little frustrated. For
> sometime now, I have been trying to locate meaningful documentation on
> the Nitros9 "DMODE" command. It's the one command that has been
> ignored in every piece of Nitros9 documentation I have looked up. I want
> to see more than what the "-?" gives. For example what are all the
> options for the "TYP" paramenter, or the DSN parameters and what do
> they mean. What is a TYP=20 for example? BTW, I know it is diskette.
> But that is just an example of what I am looking for. I have a bunch of
> disks I'm trying to read and can't because they get error 249, wrong
> type 8-/. Or worse "permission denied". I know if I try to read the
> directory of a RSDOS disk I'll get the 249 error, so that is not the
> problem. So if anyone can point me to a more meaningful explanation,
> online, that I can read and study, I would be sooo appreciative it. TIA
> 
> Hope to see you that the Fest.
> 
> RECrislip