[Coco] CocoSDC + floppy drives

[Bill Pierce]

Bob, why a seperate boot section? (just curious)
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>; CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 9:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] CocoSDC + floppy drives


My partitions consist of:

1. (boot part) 18432 sectors (4608 MB)
2. (User part) 503808 sectors (125.952 MB)

I used Windows programme called HXD to manipulate the partitions. I 
created a descriptor called SDA which has ofs set to 4800.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 9/01/2015 12:16 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>
> Allen, if you downloaded the disk images from the "nightly builds" then you 
still have the old sdc driver. These builds have not been updated with the new 
fixes. To get the new drivers, you must build the repo yourself, or get a copy 
from someone who can.
> Actually, I running a build at this very moment and would be glad to send you 
a zip of the "latest build".
> Just give me a while to let if finish up.
>
>
> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>
>
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 9:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CocoSDC + floppy drives
>
>
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 12:14 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A new SDC Driver and Boot Module were uploaded to the NitrOS-9 repository a
>> couple of weeks ago. The nightly build disk images have not yet been
>> updated to include these changes.
>>
>> The Init routine in the new driver now scans the MPI slots looking for a
>> *real* floppy controller. If it finds one then it makes that the active
>> slot so that /d0,  /d1, etc will access real floppy drives.
>>
>> The slot containing the CoCo SDC is now activated only during I/O calls for
>> /sd0 or /sd1.
>
> I just downloaded the NitrOS-9 disk images to try them out. The standard image
> boots so fast, and looking at it, I can see OS-9 has evolved quite a bit since 
I
> last ran it. Lots of submodules and such that didn't used to be there.
>
> The _cocosdc boot also boots and I see it has RbSuper and llcocosdc for the
> drivers.
>
> How do I manipulate disk images from OS-9?
>
> And how do I access the physical drives? /d0 and /sd0 are both the image I
> mounted and booted from.
>
> But wow. So fast.
>
> 		-- Allen
>
>