[Coco] OS-9 DS floppy config - SUCCESS!

Chad Hendon chadbh74 at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 9 02:35:19 EDT 2010


Wow.. that's very interesting.  Does it also set to 40 tracks and 6ms stepping?  If so, I might go back and try rebuilding my disk with the CCDISK instead of the RB1773 to see if it gives me any extra free ram at boot.

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-----Original message-----
From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 01:47:15 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 DS floppy config - SUCCESS!

Hi all,

for anyone who is interested, I found the original patch file to modify CCDISK from the Level 1 V2.0.0 distribution to read/write/format double-sided disks. It was featured in The Rainbow October 1988, pp 156. I don't have that issue now, so I can't say who wrote it (unless I download it from maltedmedia)

* Patches Level I Ver. 2
* CCDisk to read, write
* and format both single
* and double sided disks
* Rainbow, Oct '88, p 157
t
tmode .1 -pause
save /d0/ccdisk ccdisk
debug
lccdisk
. .+7
=80
$load /d0/ccdisk
lccdisk
. .+3
=82
lccdisk
. .+1c9
=16
=01
=84
lccdisk
. .+1f8
=5f
=17
=01
=76
lccdisk
. .+2ae
=e6
=c9
=00
=a9
=16
=00
=8c
=12
=23
=02
lccdisk
. .+2dd
=40
=12
=12
=12
=17
=00
=90
. .+3
=5f
=16
=00
=81
lccdisk
. .+341
=a6
=07
=85
=01
=26
=02
=ca
=40
=a6
=09
=81
=15
=16
=ff
=66
=a6
=88
=10
=85
=01
=27
=0e
=64
=e4
=24
=0a
=a6
=c9
=00
=a9
=8a
=40
=a7
=c9
=00
=a9
=35
=02
=81
=15
=16
=fe
=61
=ea
=a8
=22
=16
=ff
=01
=cb
=10
=ea
=a8
=22
=34
=02
=17
=fe
=f7
=35
=02
=39
q
del /d0/ccdisk
save /d0/temp ccdisk
verify u</d0/temp >/d0/ccdisk
del temp
tmode .1 pause
-t

* EOF *

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad H" <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 DS floppy config - SUCCESS!


>I put together a Double-sided 40-track disk image that contains this setup, >should anyone wish to examine it further.  I'm using this particular image >for running Deskmate so it has Deskmate files in the CMDs.  But it can be >used to make a OS-9 double-sided boot disk from scratch easily.  I even put >a script in the root that does just that for you, targeting /D1, called >MAKEBOOT.  It will handle all the formatting, cobbler, bootfix, etc.  Yes, >the BOOTFIX is included in the CMDS.  This is utilizing OS9's COBBLER >(Renamed on this disk to OS9COBBLER).  I haven't tried using NitrOS9's >COBBLER yet with this boot setup.  It's possible that COBBLER may eliminate >the need for BOOTFIX since we are now working from a good double-sided boot >disk as a source.  I also have my SET540 script in the root that >initializes OS9 for text output to a HP Deskjet 540 at 1200baud.
>
> The image has been uploaded to my repository as DMOS9MOD.DSK
>
>
> My CoCo repository is here > http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=4fzk73i24xo77
>
> - Chad
>
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