[Coco] Making OS-9/NitrOS9 more user friendly Facebook group discussion

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Nov 17 11:23:44 EST 2017


On Nov 17, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Theodore (Alex) Evans <alxevans at concentric.net> wrote:
> 
> Will your BootMajik be able to create boot images for large devices such
> as those supported by various old hard drive controllers, Glenside IDE,
> Super IDE (physical hard drive and CF card)? In my experience these are
> much more of a problem than creating a custom boot floppy.

If booting from a ROM like HDB-DOS and using LINK.BAS it shouldn’t be any different.

But if using the boot and run from CoCoSDC, it is because the tools are not meant for hard drives and don’t handle large sectors. He’d have to be writing LSN0 information himself.


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