[Coco] CoCoSDC: Using RS-DOS for new .DSK image file size?

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Dec 19 11:05:33 EST 2014


> On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> You might be interested in:
> 
> http://www.6809.org.uk/tmp/da/dplus-sdc/README
> 
> Patching DOSplus for the Dragon to support CoCoSDC.

Ciaran, fantastic! Specifically:

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DRIVE d,"FILE.DSK",NEW - create new 35TSS DSK image
DRIVE d,"FILE.SDF",NEW+ - create new 40TSS SDF image
DRIVE d,"FILE.SDF",NEW++ - create new 40TDS SDF image
...
The DSK creation of 35 track disks isn't terribly useful for DragonDOS-a-likes. The SDC will auto-expand on writes, but sadly not using the Write Track command used by DSKINIT. To "prime" a DSK image for DSKINIT to succeed, issue something like the following after creating:
SWRITE 1,39,18,"",""
or to expand it to 40TDS:
SWRITE 1,39,36,"",""
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What is the SWRITE command? Is that a DOSplus thing?
		-- Allen



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