[Coco] OS-9 and RS-DOS disk structures

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 20:19:42 EST 2014


OS-9 tracks start at track 0, so tracks 0 to 34 or 0 to 39

Disk Basic also starts at track 0.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 31/12/2014 10:47 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Allen,
>>
>> As far as I remember, OS-9 interleaves tracks.
>> Actually, a "track" on a double-sided disk is 2 x number of sectors per track as defined in LSN0.
>
> Meaning to OS-9, a double sided disk is seen as Track 1-40, each containing sectors 1-36???
>
> 		-- Allen
>
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