[Coco] Hard Drive Problems

[Robert Gault]

Frederick D Provoncha wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> 
>>SCSIcmds is a utility that came with SuperSCSI. It allows you to 
>>send
>>commands/get responses from the SCSI bus.
> 
> 
> Since I don't have SuperSCSI, I guess I don't have SCSIcmds.
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> More accurately, the COMPUTER hangs when it tries accessing the hard
> drive (for example, when it tries booting NitrOS-9 from the hard drive,
> or when, after booting from a floppy, I type 'DIR /h0' or 'DCHECK /h0').
> The boot floppy I've mentioned didn't come with the system. I created it
> myself using the 'make_rgbboot' script that I found on the hard drive. 
> 
> 
>>Are you mixing distributions? If so, not a good idea. 
> 
> 
> No, I'm not mixing distributions. Everything I have is NitrOS-9 ver. 2.0.
> I was planning on installing ver. 3.xx when the hard drive (or at least
> the NitrOS partition of it) ceased to work.
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> It sounds like you're describing copying the files to my hard drive,
> which doesn't work.
> 
> Any other ideas? Thanks for your help so far.
> 
> Fred
> 

Can you post the list you get when you boot from the floppy and do an 
Ident os9boot  ?  That will help the Cloud-9 folks tell exactly what 
system files are on your boot disk.