[Coco] large HD in OS9/68K

Bob Devries bdevries at gil.com.au
Tue Nov 11 22:18:00 EST 2003


David asked:
> It looks, assuming 512-byte sectors, that it's writing one track
> and quitting.  What does free show?

Free shows the correct free space on the drive.

> From what I understand, cyls, spt, and sides is irrelevant, although
> it's my suspicion that sectors x sides x sect-size probably must not
> exceed the capacity of one track if the driver does not use lba mode,
> and mine doesn't AFAICT.

If you reset bit 3 of the PD_Ctrl, then the drive isn't interrogated for
size, but the settings in the descriptor are used.
AFAIK, all SCSI drives use LBA.

Regards, Bob Devries; Ipswich, Queensland, Australia




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