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From: ingoldsby@calgary.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: OS9 Level 2 CC3Disk Driver
Message-ID: <868@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 03:31:52 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  5 03:31:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 21:46:17 EST
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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Keywords: More specific complaints



I recently complained of having problems with the CC3Disk driver in OS9
Level 2 for the Coco III.  Now that I've had more time to experiment it
seems the problem is with the double sided feature supposedly now in the
driver.  It doesn't matter whether I use double sided disks created using
OS9 Level I and (Dave Lewis') Newdisk driver or disks freshly formatted
with OS9 Level II and CC3Disk.  I get a few reads (or writes) without
problem and then just #244 - Read Error.  Has anyone got Level II to work
with double sided (preferably 80 track) drives?  I am very familiar with
the Newdisk source code but not with Level II.  What do I have to do to
make Newdisk work with Level II?

Until this problem is resolved I'm stuck with Level I (a computer without
external storage is useless).  Can anyone explain to me why Tandy always
provides such excellent operating systems with such LOUSY device drivers?

                                           Terry Ingoldsby
                                 ...!ihnp4!alberta!calgary!ingoldsby