[Coco] KenTon RGB-DOS floppy issue

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sun Feb 12 01:30:39 EST 2017


> On Feb 12, 2017, at 12:11 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
> Oh oh.  What are the wpc and ofs settings in /dd according to dmode? If 
> zeroed out, you just formatted the first approximately 86 megs of the HD 
> as virtual floppies.  By-By anything os9 on that drive below that. If 
> LSN0 survived, we might be able reverse configure a descriptor. Doing a 
> dump of the first half of LSN0 might be helpfull.

Nothing on the disks. I’m trying to write it full of 0s to erase all the sectors and test them. I have five or six SyQuest EZ135 disks I’ll be selling with the drives, and I’m just trying to make sure all my stuff has been erased and any bad sectors can be clearly marked for the new owner :)

		— A



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