[Coco] Toolshed help

[Mike Rowen]

I tried entering the disk name in DW and formatting in NitrOS-9, but that
wasn't the expected size either. Sounds like I need to add some options to
format to get a 40track disk image. I'll have to look at it tomorrow at this
point, but I'll get back to you. Thanks all for your speedy replies!

-Mike

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Mike Rowen wrote:
>
>> I want to copy /d0 to /x1 via drivewire 3. However, I can't seem to create
>> a
>> /x1 image with the same format as /d0.
>>
>> I've been creating my dsk file using the os9 command that is part of
>> toolshed:
>>
>> os9 format -4 -t40 mydisk.dsk
>>
>> However this appears to be larger than a normal floppy. What am I missing
>> here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Mike
>>
>
> First, there should not be any need to use os9.exe to create the disk as
> the Drivewire server will do that for you. Just mount a non-existent file
> name in the server and then format /x1 while running NitrOS-9 on your Coco.
> Just remember to force format to create an /x1 equal in size to your /d0
> disk. The default for /x1 is $400 tracks.
>
> Regards the Toolshed os9.exe, what is the format of the /d0 disk which you
> are trying to match? You can get that with the command:
> free /x1
>
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