Bringing up a CPM

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Thu May 27 15:00:26 1999

allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:
>
> The standard size for cpm a is:
>
> CCP 800h 2048 bytes
> Bdos E00h 3584 bytes
> BIOS variable 8"sssd example is 1500bytes.
>
> This is generally stuffed on to the sssd 8" as the first two tracks of the
> disk, 52 sectors total or 6656 bytes for all three components.

Hi Allison
 This also doesn't make sense. Track 0 sector 1 is the boot loader.
That leaves 25 sectors in the first track. 26 in the second track
makes a total of 51. This is contrary to your example. You only have
6528 bytes or a little fewer for BIOS variables.
 Still that doesn't explain the 7680 bytes in the file from
the site. I still don't know what to do.
Dwight
Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 15:00:26 BST