[Coco] CF Configuration Question

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 June 2013 13:10:17 Mark Marlette did opine:

> 64MB is pretty small, HDB-DOS with all 256 drives requires ~75MB IIRC.

URIC, its 41,287,680 bytes per 256 vdisk images.
 
> Add a NitrOS-9 partition with a cluster of 1 max'd out, another 127MB.
> You can see 256MB is the sweet spot.
> 
> You can go larger. 24 bit LSN supportted.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> http://www.cloud9tech.com
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker <ranaur at ranaur.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CF Configuration Question
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I`m just starting to play with my superIDE aswell. Why can`t you
> duplicate the CF card with DD? WHat is the minimum/maximum CF card size
> I can use? Can I use a 64MB card (I have one spare at home).
> 
> Happy hacking! :)
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since I can't seem to 'duplicate' my Cloud9 CF card using dd for
> > Windows or SIDEWalk or Acronis, until I fugure it out (with Mark's
> > help) I decided to try to create brand new CF card.
> > My system is a CoCo3, with SuperIDE in slot 1, Orch-90 in slot 2, SSC
> > in slot 3, Disto II with HDB-DOS & DW3 in ROM
> > I set the MPI selector to slot 4
> > Insert a blank 256mg SanDIsk CF in the SuperIDE slot
> > Power on the system
> > Enter DRIVE OFF to use the physical disks
> > Note: I did not use poke &HFF7F,0
> > 
> > Load IDEPROBE.BAS from the utilities disk run it
> > It shows:
> > logical cyl=980
> > logical heads=11
> > logical sectors=32
> > Total Sectors=501760
> > LBA is supported
> > 
> > Then I load WIZARD.BAS from the HDBDOS disk and run 50000 (I do this
> > becasue I want to use the programming already done by Mark/Boisy).
> > It tells me that I have 339420 sectors available
> > Drive capacity is 122.50mb
> > HDB capacity is 39.38mb (for 256 virtual disks)
> > OS9 capacity is 83.13mb
> > An the 'magic number' is &H53200 or 340480 sectore
> > 
> > Then I boot the SuperIDE OS9 Disk and following the information in
> > "Installing & Configuring NirtOS9 and HDB-DOS", I use dmode to
> > configure /i0 as cyl=be00 sid=7 sct=1 t0s=1 typ=81 and format it
> > After I say no (or even yes) to logical and physical format and enter
> > the drive name, I get an error 250
> > 
> > What obvious thing am I missing?
> > Do I need to locate install the original Disto ROM and configure HDB
> > DOS first? I assumes that I would not have to as I have HDBDOS 1.1a
> > in my FDCC and 1.1d in SuperIDE
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
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