[Coco] Issues with NitrOS9 build

Tormod Volden lists.tormod at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 14:46:10 EST 2014


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, Bill,
>
> I have another bootable image which is 80 tracks DS/DD. works fine.
>
>
> Regards, Bob Devries
> Dalby, QLD, Australia
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 2:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Issues with NitrOS9 build
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>>
>> 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 :-)

Bob, could this simply be the same issue as I had with the Dragon images:


>>
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>> Bill Pierce
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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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