#: 15747 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    02-Jul-92  09:09:28
Sb: #15731-#MM/1 RBF Bug
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

If you did post CRCs then I didn't see them.  Maybe you can post them again, or
the Sysops here can go back and find that message and point me to it (hint hint
Steve).

It is very possible that the cable can be causing your problem, or the 3.5 inch
drive.  If you have any other drives to try, then you should do that and see
what happens.  As for booting from a 5.25 inch drive, OS-9/OSK doesn't care
what the drive type or size is.  All it looks for is the LSN0 data which points
it to the sector where the bootfile is. Then it just issues a seek command to
get to that sector and it starts to read.  Of course, OSK Ver 2.4 can now bring
in a bootfile that is fragmented, but older versions and OS-9 can't.  The long
and the short of it is--if you can make a bootfile on the disk, it can be
booted from that disk.

I always make my boot disks on an Atari formatted disk cause I don't like to
use up a HD disk just to hold the bootfile.  I have also been able to boot from
a Universal format and a CoCo format disk.

Mark

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