[Coco] Reading/Writing Model I/III/4 Disks on a CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 05 September 2013 14:41:47 Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) did 
opine:

> B09 won't support double sided.

Huh?  B09 only runs on os9.  And supports whatever the device descriptor 
says.
 
> Also write to LSN0 at the end. Skip the first sector from both image and
> floppy, write all sectors and then reopen both image and floppy and then
> write to LSN0.
> 
> Don't use seek, just read and ignore as the seek seems to not work
> properly with non os-9 disks.
> 
> I have made a rawcopy tool for that, is at home I can send it you. it is
> in asm so it supports double sided disks as well. I made a dragon32
> superdos disk using it.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Al Hartman 
<alhartman6 at optonline.net>wrote:
> > Did it work? Have you successfully written an image?
> > 
> > - Al -
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- From: Gene Heskett
> > 
> > Sure there is, it took me about an hour to knock it out in B09. Write
> > LSN0, close the path, then reopen, and write the whole thing one
> > sector at a time.  The dbl write of lsn0 is to get rid of the disk
> > changed error.
> > 
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