[Coco] Ken-Ton Update

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Fri Dec 19 17:46:30 EST 2003


Chris Spry wrote:
> Well folks, I've been able to use a hard drive on this setup finally. I 
> just forwent the format program and tried DSKINI'ng a drive and it 
> actually did it.  All 255 RS-DOS partitions. Am trying to get the latest 
> OS-9 from the project on my system to get the rest of the HD going on 
> that system.  But I thought I would also ask a question.  I got it to 
> detect several hard drives, but on most of them I get rather IO or WP 
> errors when trying to dskini any of the drive.  I only got one other to 
> work right (and it is a 1GB SCSI drive no less).  Anybody have any kind 
> of answer to this?
>  
> -Chris
> 
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Glad it's working for you.

Just keep in mind what DSKINI actually does on a hard drive. This is not 
a low level format. Instead it just converts all the data areas of each 
sector to all $FFs.




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