[Coco] Hard Drive Problems

[mmarlett at isd.net]

Fred,

SCSIcmds is a utility that came with SuperSCSI. It allows you to send
commands/get responses from the SCSI bus.

So the boot floppy that came with your system hangs the hard drive after
you boot from the floppy? Or the disk you created hangs the hard
drive/system after you boot from floppy?

Are you mixing distributions? If so, not a good idea. Need to take the
disks place them in the /dd/nitros9/ver03xxyy directory. Run the scripts
with your proper bootlist modules. Then copy the files from the
distrubution disk's CMDS directory to the /dd/cmds directory.

???

Regards,

Mark

>
>Hi Mark,
>
>I'm running NitrOS-9 version 2.0.
>
>I'm not sure where to find the SCSI hard drive boot ID, but I have TC^3
>version 1.0. The driver is the TC^3 SCSIsys  driver, NOT the SuperSCSI
>driver.
>
>I DO have access to the scripts, at least the ones that came with my
>NitrOS-9 version 2.0 setup. I backed up all of those directories onto
>floppies. The script I used to create the boot that resides on Drive 255
>is a modified version of the 'make_rgbboot' script.
>
>The thing is though, I already have a working floppy boot disk. I can
>boot NitrOS-9 version 2.0 from a floppy just fine. It's just whenever I
>try looking at the hard drive after booting, the system hangs.
>
>Please forgive my ignorance, but what is SCSIcmds? Whatever it is, I
>don't think I have it...
>
>Fred Provoncha
>
>
>On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:46:01 -0500 Mark Marlette <mmarlett at isd.net>
>writes:
> > At 09:34 PM 6/6/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> > Please describe what your system is. As I recall I built it,
> > NitrOS-9
> > version ??? SCSI hard drive boot ID=??, SuperSCSI or TC^3 driver???
> > All the
> > systems I ship use scripts. You should have a read.me or readme.txt
> > in the
> > root explaining how to build the boots.
> >
> > So can you build a floppy boot? If you can't then don't try the hard
> > drive
> > boot. Floppy boot with SCSIcmds, can you see the drive via the
> > utility? You
> > should it it/was a working drive???
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >Hi Mark,
> > >
> > >I booted NitrOS-9 using an all-floppy boot that contained the /h0
> > >descriptor. I then tried your suggestion of running 'dcheck /h0'.
> > The
> > >system hung, which is exactly what happened when I tried a 'dir
> > /h0'
> > >which I described in my last message. Whenever NitrOS-9 tries
> > looking for
> > >the hard drive for any reason it can't seem to find it and it
> > hangs. This
> > >only applies to the NitrOS-9 partition on the hard drive. The
> > RGB-DOS
> > >partition works just fine and I have full access to it.
> > >
> > >As for the 'mb_hdb_dd' script, I'm not running the script yet
> > because I'm
> > >still running my system under an outdated version of NitrOS.
> > That's
> > >because I'm still having problems transferring the latest version
> > of
> > >NitrOS over to a floppy that the Coco can read. I posted a couple
> > >messages about that a couple of weeks ago. I should probably give
> > you
> > >guys an update on that endeavor:
> > >
> > >If you recall, I reported that I could not get the Coco to read a 3
> > 1/2"
> > >boot disk created using DSKINI and the most-recent downloaded .dsk
> > image
> > >of NitrOS. I was getting "Error 249 - Wrong Type". I tried Rodney
> > >Hamilton's suggestion of using DMODE to change the DNS setting in
> > the /d1
> > >drive descriptor to DNS=3. I then tried "DIR /d1" and lo and
> > behold, I
> > >got a directory listing of the root directory of /d1! My euphoria
> > was
> > >short-lived however, because when I tried doing directory listings
> > of the
> > >sub-directories CMDS, SYS, and DEFS, the DEFS directory was fine
> > but I
> > >got an "Error 214" with the CMDS directory and an "Error 247" with
> > the
> > >SYS directory. It seems to me that Rodney was on the right track.
> > After
> > >all, before I couldn't read the disk at all, and at least now I can
> > DIR
> > >the root directory successfully and the DEFS directory. But the
> > disk is
> > >still basically unuseable. I have also tried Rodney's suggestion
> > of
> > >alternatively patching LSN0 to change the DD.FMT value from $07 to
> > $03
> > >with pretty-much the same results as the DMODE fix. Anyone else
> > have any
> > >ideas?
> > >
> > >Fred Provoncha
> > >Stansbury Park, UT
> > >
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