[Coco] Create Nitros9 DSK on SDC

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 17 August 2020 23:35:55 Ed Orbea wrote:

> Gene:
>
> Thanks for the input, but that does not work as expected.
>
> If I use dmode to change the attributes of /SD1, it immediately
> reverts back.
>
> I first used the Drive 1,"test.dsk", NEW command to create a blank
> disk
>
> Secondly I used dmode /sd1 to attempt to change attributes

Wrong order I think. dmode s/b be 1st, and I never heard of the NEW 
command. My machine has died, so I can't test, but unless its been 
passed the disk format as options, format uses the device descriptor as 
a model.  There are other options.  Using drivewire from linux, you can 
create a 100 megabyte by name, and make a descriptor for on the coco 
running notros9, use drivewire to link it as a drive, one of the /x# 
descriptors amd start using it, anything you put in it becomes visible 
to the coco, and vice versa. 

> Third, I use used the format /SD1 to initialize the disk. I say that
> "Y" it was a had drive and "N", I did not want both a PHYSICAL and
> LOGICAL Format (I also tried it the other way with BOTH a PHYSICAL and
> LOGICAL format)
>
> Fourth I again use the dmode command to view the attribes and they was
> set to what the original attributes were *before I attempted to change
> them"
>
> I am using Nitros9 ver 3.3.0 (build from the source in mid 2019) on a
> 6309 (2mg Boomerang board) with a SDC pack (latest firmware)
>
> Ed

With my machine suffering a terminal case of dried out, bad capacitors, 
it wasn't turned off for 25 years and everything else going on in my 
life, heart attacks, the wife of 30 years in a nursing home I trying to 
figure out how to pay for, so I am alone now, and it probably isn't 
going to get fixed.

Sorry but the years and long term diabetes are catching up to me..

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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