[Coco] os9.exe

[Steve Bjork]

What about mounting it as a hard drive and not as a floppy drive image?
We are talking OS-9 here and not Disk Basic.  By design OS-9 can handle 
both hard and floppy drives but Disk Basic was design for Floppies only.

Steve Bjork.

Roger Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone here use os9.exe from Toolshed?
>
> I'm adding the 'mount' command to OS-9/CoCoNet now and in addition to 
> mouting .dsk images on a remote PC or from the web, I'd like to try to 
> mount a PC directory or a web directory.  My initial method for doing 
> this will be to copy the source files onto a newly formatted OS-9 disk 
> image and then mount that image in the CoCoNet server.
>
> So, I'm trying to create a new OS-9 disk image by using: os9 format 
> new.dsk -st=18 -t320
> but the resulting image is only 3200 or so bytes.  Also, the default 
> sectors per track is showing to be 2 when the disk summary is reported 
> if I don't supply the -st option.  The os9.exe help listing shows the 
> default to be 18.
>
> Any suggestions?
>