[Coco] Booting NitrOS-9 on a CoCo 3

[Diego Barizo]

There is a newer version of DSKINI that supports the extra parameters. 
I'm going to upload the right one to the site right now.
The /T40 parameter is the one that tells the program to do a 40 track 
disk. It would seem that you are getting 80 track disk, and that would 
be the problem.

Try getting the newer DSKINI from www.nitros9.org in a few minutes.

Diego


N8WQ wrote:
> Hi Darren,
> Thanks for responding to my question so fast. Yes my CoCo 3 tower has 
> a 6309 cpu. I am using a Hitachi 63x09E with Cloud-9's "Pro-Tector".
>
> So it looks like DSKINI is not formatting my disk properly? I tried 
> using a 5.25" 360K floppy in my PC but I was getting errors when 
> executing DSKINI. So I replaced that floppy drive on my PC with a 
> 5.25" 1.2meg floppy and I can now create 35 track, single sided disks 
> no problem. Before I forget,  I need to mention that I am using MS-DOS 
> 6.22 on an old 386DX-33 PC that I bought at Goodwill about 4 years ago 
> for $5.00  :)
>
> I also noticed that there appears to be some discrepancy between 
> DSKINI syntax and the DSKINI documentation on the NitrOS-9 site 
> (http://www.nitros9.org/howto.html#dsk). For example this syntax does 
> not work on my version of DSKINI:
>
> DSKINI /T40 /D B: NOS963~1.DSK
>
> "Unable to open specified virtual disk."
>
> Here is the Usage that is listed if you type DSKINI by it's self at 
> the DOS prompt:
>
> "Usage: DSKINI [2] [8] [d:] [[path\diskname[.DSK]]
>                "d:"             destination drive (default A:)
>                "path"         source directory for virtual disk
>                "diskname"  name of virtual disk
>                /2                to write to the second side of the disk
>                /8                if using an 80-track disk in 1.2Mb drive
>
> At least one parameter must be specified."
>
> Where is the "/T" and "/D" parameters coming from?
>
> If I type "DSKINI B: NOS963~1.DSK
> 75 tracks are written but only head 0 is being used. If This image is 
> double track shouldn't the format alternate between heads 0 and 1?
>
> Alan Jones
>