[Coco] OS-9/68K raw disk access syntax

[Joel Ewy]

On 01/02/2016 09:45 AM, David Ladd wrote:
> Joel,
>
> There use to be a way to add floppy access profiles for new formats.  I had
> to googling it a long time ago to be able to dd the coco floppies that
> way.  Might need to create a special profile for the OS-9/68K disks as
> well.  So you might want to try googling it.
>
> I will try to google it when I get home tonight my time and see if I can
> find it then.

Yeah.  For some reason, I can't find the file that is supposed to define 
those profiles (fdparm?) in either /etc/ or /usr/local/etc. The Toolshed 
documentation makes it sound as if there are already definitions for 
CoCo disks that come with the fdtools distribution, and I have vague 
memories of that being the case a few years ago.

Right now I just need to make it work at all.

JCE

> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>> On 01/01/2016 07:34 PM, David Ladd wrote:
>>
>>> ​​
>>> I might be wrong, but if memory serves me I think the MM/1's OS-9/68K
>>> formatted floppies sectors per track starts at 0 rather than 1 like some
>>> of
>>> the older floppy formats use to be.  So may have to take that into
>>> account.  Sadly I can't verify this at this time as my MM/1 is currently
>>> packed away.​
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>> You're right about that, as I've discovered.  I think that's causing me a
>> problem when trying to image the disks with 'dd' under LInux on a PC.
>>
>>
>> JCE
>>
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