[Coco] More on NitrOS9 and format

[Bill Pierce]

Bill, I was the one that mentioned it not running from a script. This has been a problem for quite some time in running the boot making scripts included on the NitrOS9 release images. Why? No one has figured it out yet that I know of. But format runs fine from the command line.
I have run format on a Coco3 (512k & 1 meg), Coco2 (64k), Coco1 (64k), (all 3 with & without an MPI), VCC (512k to 8 meg), Mame (512k to 8 meg), & Coco3FPGA (512k to 4.5 meg) using Floppy disks (40 & 80trk), GlensideIDE (4gig), Raw SD card (Coco3FPGA, 4x 1gig partitions), "dsk", & "vhd" (emulators). I format drives up to 4gig in size (IDE & VHD) with no problems.
The only time I see a problem is when running the boot scripts on the repo disks. But even then, it does not crash my system. It just fails and moves to the next command in the script and continues. As a fix for this, I format the disk before running the script and comment out the format command in the script.

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Mar 18, 2018 9:13 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] More on NitrOS9 and format

Not sure what you are looking for.  Hardware is a real COCO3
with 512 Meg of memory.

For the SCSI hard disk, boot NitrOS9 -> format /s0 "SCSI1" r
For the IDE, boot NitrOS9 -> format /i0 "SCSI1" r
Additionally, the two above commands with #26 and #32 added.

When I first mentioned this I had a couple of people tel me that
there was a problem with format and I should make as much
memory as possible available.  They said this was especially
true when format was run from a script.  I would love to see
an explanation of why running any command from a script
should make a difference in how it ran considering that both
running from a script and running from the command line
causes the program to be execed from a shell.

bill


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