On Sun 24 Jun 2018 at 10:26:45 +0100, Andy Grady wrote: > OK that didn?t work ?.. > > Digging deeper it seems this is an 8050 format disk but under DOS 2.7 ?. from what i can glean dos2.7 can handle or/9 ?rel' files differently (larger sizes are possible and this one is formatted as 120 tracks instead of 77) which is possibly the cause of why i cannot do anything with this disk. I guess you could try sfd-1001 drives. > In Vice what is the DOS version for 8050 drives ? I don't know off the top of my head, but *** commodore basic 4.0 *** 31743 bytes free ready. ?ds$ 73,cbm dos v2.7,00,00,0 ready. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. > Andy > > > > On 23 Jun 2018, at 20:21, Andy Grady <grada719@aol.com> wrote: > > > > ummm, just had an idea come to me ?. on the super os/9 disk, when running in the os/9 environment, there are two programs in the cmds folder called cbmwrite and cbmread. I used cdmwrite to write the 0s9.d8d9 module file out onto the native part of the CBM disk which can be read on the superpet using the waterloo micro editor. > > > > I bet cbmread does the opposite ?. will try it to see if i can write the files out of the os/9 environment and then use cbmread to put them back in having copied them onto an 8050 format disk - all in vice. > > > > Andy > > > >> On 23 Jun 2018, at 19:47, Andy Grady <grada719@aol.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Maybe the OS/9 code cannot handle that it needs to access drive 8 and > >>> 10, instead of the probably more common 8 and 9? > >> > >> Yes, OS/9 expects unit 8 and unit 9 ?. i finally managed to perform a directory listing on disk10 (8250) using the waterloo microEditor (took several attempts) but as the os/9 files are contained in a ?rel? file, I don?t know how to decode it.. > >> > >> I have a few os/9 programs in a large ?rel? file that it seems can only be read on an 8250 (confirmed in Vice) ? I only have an 8050 so was hoping could use VICE to transfer across to that format. A ram disk was another thought and then switch drive types etc. > >> > >> Thank you for replying?. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> On 23 Jun 2018, at 16:53, Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sat 23 Jun 2018 at 01:24:20 -0700, AndyG wrote: > >>>> Hi all > >>>> > >>>> Wondered if someone can help me out here. I am not able to to run Vice in > >>>> Superpet mode with 2 drive units 8050 and 8250 .... VICE only allows unit 8 > >>>> & 9 which is drive 0 and drive 1 ..... on a 8050 for example. > >>>> unit 10 & 11 are not enabled in VICE. > >>> > >>> Due to some internal limitations, a dual drive takes up 2 device > >>> numbers, so the first 8050 would be at device 8 and also make number 9 > >>> unavailable. The second 8050 (or 8250) would be device 10 and make 11 > >>> unavailable. That is because internally VICE only knows about 4 floppy > >>> images. > >>> > >>> The gtk3 settings windows in the current svn version doesn't seem to > >>> represent this 100% correctly yet, I see now that I'm trying that. > >>> I'm pretty sure this is shown correctly (but possibly somewhat > >>> confusingly) in the menu settings in older releases. > >>> > >>>> I want to run Super OS/9 with this configuration also - i have the relevant > >>>> os9.d8d9.mod module to enable multi unit capability. > >>>> > >>>> I can have one or the other but not both .... any ideas or is this a > >>>> limitation of Vice ? > >>> > >>> Maybe the OS/9 code cannot handle that it needs to access drive 8 and > >>> 10, instead of the probably more common 8 and 9? > >>> > >>>> Also, I have been working in OS/9 - on my real unit, I can create a ram disk > >>>> by issuing the command format /dram without any issues. in VICE when you > >>>> issue a Format /dram command from the os9: prompt it goes through the > >>>> formatting motions until it asks for the disk name ... after that it just > >>>> hangs. Any ideas ? > >>> > >>> There might be a bug in the 6809 code, who knows. It is only lightly > >>> tested, really. I briefly tried OS/9, I think, and saw it didn't crash, > >>> but no more. In particular the 6809 is not cycle-exact; maybe that would > >>> be a problem? > >>> > >>>> Cheers > >>>> Andy > >>> -Olaf. > >>> -- > >>> ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X > >>> \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly. > >> > >> > > > > >
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