[Coco] EZGen Question

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,
Bill is correct, try it again, refresh the memory. :)
Have a backup first, it will be corrupt.
There is no question if it will occur, just when you try it.
This was true with all B&B utils for OS-9.
At the time I am sure Chris never thought there would be anything else ever on the CoCo that would need a cluster size >1.
Regards,
Mark Marlette
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    On Monday, March 18, 2019, 9:16:09 AM CDT, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:  
 
 On Monday 18 March 2019 07:35:29 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> ezgen works as long as you're working with single cluster size sector
> allocation. If you are using mutiple cluster sizes (i.e.
> drives/partitions larger than 128meg) then ezgen will trash the drive.
>
First I've heard of that, Bill. Has it happened to you?  I haven't used 
it in yonks but don't think I've used it on anything but cluster=1 
floppies either. Both of my HD's are multisector clusters, one at 4, the 
other at 16.  And I have used both in odd ways before I got drivewire 
working, like sz'ing a nitros9 floppy image as a file to either drive, 
locating where it was on the hard drive, fixing a descriptor with that 
offset but otherwise copied from a std floppy, and running that 
descriptor as a floppy to put a new install of nitros9 on my main 
partition.

>From my now ancient memory, when I put the multisector cluster stuff back 
into rbf after Kevin Darling so helpfully removed it as one of his 
so-called "Christmas Presents", all my testing was on floppies formatted 
to up to 64 sector clusters. I figured that was far enough as that 
carried us well past the 4Gb mark. And the code did not need any fixes 
during the testing, it Just Worked.  So I /think/ that code is 
bulletproof.

If ezgen can manage to screw that up, maybe ezgen should be dissed and 
looked at?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rcrislip <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 1:18 am
> Subject: [Coco] EZGen Question
>
> Hi, I am quite sure that this has been answered many many times, but I
> have to ask it one more time 8-) Will B&B's EZGen work with Nitros?
> TIA
>
> RECrislip
>
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