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Using TRSDOSII images with the HxC emulator

Hans01

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I have problems reading HxC images from TRSDOS-II (TRSDOS 4.x) disks with the USB Gotek emulator.
As far as I can see is the number of sectors/track the problem.
Does anyone know or has this problem ?
 
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Frank Durda IV wrote a bit about the format; see https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!search/Trsdos$20ii$2027th$20sector$20disk$20change/comp.sys.tandy/0W_J2aNRpEI

When you say "TRSDOSII" do you mean "TRSDOS for Model II" or do you mean "TRSDOS-II" which means TRSDOS 4.x for Model II?

In both cases, you have odd formatting with mixed density and mixed sector sizes. You might have to hand-hack the HFE file to get it to work.

To distil Frank's information a bit:

For TRSDOS 2.x for Model II, you need 27 sectors per track, 256 bytes per sector, for all tracks except track 0 on bootable disks. TRSDOS-II 4.x uses 16 sectors per track, 512 byte sectors, except track 0 on bootable disks. As I recall, for double-sided you count two tracks per cylinder, one track per side.

The 27th sector on each track was apparently used for disk change detection and held no usable data (this is according to Frank).

Hope this helps; I don't have my 12 set up yet, but I do have the HxC for it, and will be able to directly check once I have it operational.
 
Hi lowen.

At first thanks fore the information. The problems are with the TRSDOS 4.x version.
But I was partly mistaken. There are no problems with the SD HxC emulator.
The problem is the GOTEK version emulator as this is the one I have connected to my Model 12 with TRSDOS 4.2x running.

Hans.
 
The recent firmware is v3.1.30.1a.
There are no problems with other image files. I have used the hfe and the hfe(v3) mode.
The GOTEK doesn't support the hfe(v2) according to Jeff
 
While I have a Gotek, I don't have the HxC firmware loaded; I'm trying out the Keirf firmware first. But I'm probably going to get another Gotek at some point and get the HxC bootloader and try out that firmware as well.

You will probably want to talk to Jeff and get some advice on how to proceed. Sorry I can't be of more assistance.
 
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