[Coco] The cobbler "problem"

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 25, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it a requirement to always specify the disk geometry in terms of
> cylinders and sides?

Just legacy, since that tool was designed to make a bootable floppy drive.  :)

> I thought there was a way to specify that a disk was an LBA device or to
> have the system query the device for its type and size.  Each of the
> low-level drivers based on rbsuper (of which the CoCo SDC driver is one)
> supports the GetStat request code SS.DSize for that purpose.

The "cobbler" utility was just hard-coded to expect single or double sided floppy drives. It was never designed for anything else.

However, in my next post, I will show how you can cobble right now, and only loose about 3K of potential disk space :)

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