[Coco] New trick for nitros9 users

[Willard Goosey]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:59:07PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> {t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/3.2.9:dmode /s1 wpc=00 ofs=0800
> where the $0800 is half the $1000 that filext reports.
> 
> Now:
> {t2|07}/DD/NITROS9/3.2.9:free /s1                 
> 
> "NitrOS-9/6309 Level 2" created on: 2010/12/28
> Capacity: 2,880 sectors (1-sector clusters) 
> 16,242 free sectors, largest block 16,242 sectors
> 
> So it worked, I can cd to /s1, do a dir -e on it, and run a dsave to make 
> the install script that will copy it back to /dd, which is a 1Gb seagate 
> drive.  That has now been run, dw3 stuff has been made available so I can 
> build new boots with it and continue the conversion to drivewire, and the 
> rest of the drive has not been effected, clearing the ofs value restores it 
> to its full 40 meg capacity and it still gets a clean bill from dcheck.


Cool.  Very, very cool!

Willard
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