[Coco] os9 copy is not reporting an error

David dbree at duo-county.com
Mon Dec 15 14:33:14 EST 2003


On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:36:22PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Tonight I tried to copy a new os9boot file into an otherwise working 
> disk.
> 
> Knowing that it must be contiguous, I first set the disks attribute 
> for sas to $90.  The copy went nicely, but when I then checked the fd 
> for the file preparatory to adjusting the data for DD.BT and DD.SIZ 
> in LSN0, imagine my surprise when I found the file was split, the 
> first allocation only being for $75 sectors, with the last $15 being 
> 2/3rds of the way to the inner track.

Gene,

With the OS9tools, there's an "os9 gen" command, too.

How about making a "rescue" boot disk with these tools?  You have to
specify the location of your bootstrap files ( the track 34 stuff).



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