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

Ciaran Anscomb cocomalt at 6809.org.uk
Fri Dec 19 11:48:26 EST 2014


Allen Huffman wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> What does DSKINIT do compared to CoCo's DSKINI? I gather it's issuing
> TRACK FORMAT commands to the drive controller chip, and CoCoSDC does not
> expand on those (only WRITE commands) which is the issue?

Yep, that's the size of it.

DOSplus defaults to verifying by reading sectors in turn after the disk
is formatted, so it errors out because those later tracks never ended
up actually "existing".

..ciaran


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