[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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