[Coco] NitrOS-9 V03.02.01 Release

[Frederick D Provoncha]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Frederick D Provoncha" <elderpav at juno.com>
> 
> > I forgot to mention that I already have a 3 1/2" drive installed 
> on the
> > Coco. So why am I using 5 1/4" disks? Because I haven't had any 
> success
> > using DSKINI to transfer the images to a 3 1/2" disk, either. Even 
> if I
> > do succeed in executing the command without getting a write error, 
> the
> > resulting disk is unreadable on the Coco. I get "Error 249 - Wrong 
> Type"
> > 
> > When I boot OS-9 using another boot disk and then analyze the 
> problem
> > disk, I can DIR the root directory and the DEFS directory, but I 
> get a
> > seek error when I try DIR-ing the SYS directory. When I tried 
> DIR-ing the
> > CMDS directory, it gave me a 'no permission' error, and when I 
> checked
> > the attributes, CMDS is listed as a file, not a directory! 
> Obviously the
> > disk is garbled, due to a faulty DSKINI operation I imagine.
> > 
> > Fred Provoncha


On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:41:02 -0700 "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at hotpop.com>
writes:
> 
> 
> What sort of floppies are you using? 720K (one hole)?
> 
> NM

The 3 1/2" disks I'm using are double-sided double-density disks. I
believe those are 720k. As for 5 1/4", I'm using the 360k double-sided
double-density.

Fred Provoncha