[Coco] OS9 help needed.

[tfadden]

Another solution would to use DriveWire.
Set drive wire to be  active along with your physical floppy, and go at 
it.

------ Original Message ------
From: "Mike Delyea" <mdelyea at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: 12/23/2018 9:38:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS9 help needed.

>If those disks are copies of the ORIGINAL Level II disks then they should
>be single sided 35 track disks and should boot on a 35track ss or 40track
>ds drive. The way I remember making 40track ds disks was to go through the
>process of creating the normal 35track ss system disk and then put a copy
>of dmode on it.  You then dmode to make the disk 40track ds and then
>cobbler a new disk (I don't remember the exact dmode parameters - I'm sure
>somebody else will).  Cobbler will make the new disk with the 40track ds
>parameters you specified with dmode.  You'll have to manually copy the
>system files over.  I recall getting dmode on a disk can be a bit of an
>issue on a single drive system.
>
>On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 7:33 AM Walter <zambotti at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>>  Hi
>>
>>
>>
>>  I found my original OS9 Lvl 2 floppies.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Can someone remind me how I can access a 40 track double sided floppy if
>>  the
>>  boot floppy
>>  is 35 track single sided?
>>
>>
>>
>>  I tried loading the d40_ds.dd from the modules directory but of course it
>>  can't overwrite the
>>
>>  /d0 module that is already in memory.
>>
>>
>>
>>  If I os9gen the 33ss floppy with the d040_ds descriptor will it work
>>  correctly on the 35trk_ss media long enough
>>  for me to format a 40ds floppy?
>>
>>
>>
>>  If feel like I'm stuck between the chicken and the egg!
>>
>>
>>
>>  Walter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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