[Coco] os9.exe

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Sat Apr 18 17:46:32 EDT 2009


At 10:18 AM 4/18/2009, you wrote:
>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?
>
>The syntax of the command can be seen online by typing
>os9 format
>That ought to be enough to figure out how to create the desired disk image.


I've seen the syntax readout already.  I said when I don't supply the 
sectors per track, it shows it used 2 instead of 18 like the syntax 
dump says is the default.  In addition, images are very short in size 
which suggests the old Vavasour format.  Not for me.   Anyway, I'll 
try the -e option in a bit... just got home.

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Roger Taylor

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