[Coco] Issues with NitrOS9 build

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 01:38:57 EST 2014


BTW, this is not a VCC issue; MESS fails the same way.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Issues with NitrOS9 build


>
> Bob,
> Could it be that Vcc drive emulation is not recognizing the 80trk 
> properly? After all, it is a 35trk SSDD emulation when in rsdos/rgbdos. 
> Personally, I've never had any luck booting 80trk disks in Vcc, but the 
> repo has never had disks this good either :-)
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 11:43 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Issues with NitrOS9 build
>
>
> I did a CMP of the os9boot files on the 40 track disk
> (nos96309l2v030209coco3_40d_1.dsk) and the os9boot file on the 80 track 
> disk
> (nos96309l2v030209coco3_80d.dsk) and found that the only differences were
> two bytes in each Dx module (IT.TYP and IT.CYL) and of course, the CRC 
> bytes
> for each of those (4) modules.
>
> So why the failure of the 80 track image?
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
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