[Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)

[Vern Burke]

James:
    TCC512 is the hard disk driver.

Vern


jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> Pardon my asking as I have kind of sat by and watched all this go 

> by as an interested obsever.

> 

> Looking at the bootlist, would you not need a CC3HDISK driver and 

> device descriptors loaded at bootup to be able to access a hard disk 

> on boot? 

> 

> May be I don't see it because it is incorporated in another driver?

> 

> 

> james

> On 28 Aug 2005 at 15:31, Vern Burke wrote:

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> Date sent:      	Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:31:31 -0400

> From:           	Vern Burke <vburke at skow.net>

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>>Here it is:

>>

>>  17 $C0 $47B370 . OS9p2

>>    12 $C1 $FD1FEA . IOMan

>>    67 $C0 $0B398A . Init

>>     9 $C1 $D28AFD . Clock

>>    28 $D1 $EFBE13 . RBF

>>    82 $F1 $6B9092 . hd

>>    82 $F1 $BAFCA3 . dd

>>     2 $E1 $96184F . TCC512

>>     9 $E1 $759161 . CC3Disk

>>    82 $F1 $9B5FBA . D0

>>    82 $F1 $080376 . D1

>>    82 $F1 $6FB52E . fd

>>    13 $D1 $F946CA . SCF

>>    12 $E1 $3CB148 . MODPAK

>>    83 $F1 $F622ED . T3

>>    12 $E1 $C1EA10 . ACIAPAK

>>    82 $F1 $9E655D . T2

>>     9 $E1 $915957 . SIO

>>    83 $F1 $ECEB09 . T1

>>    16 $E1 $F737C2 . CC3IO

>>    14 $C1 $6E4441 . GrfInt

>>    83 $F1 $EC1C40 . Term

>>    83 $F1 $75DEBB . W

>>    83 $F1 $7CD180 . W1

>>    83 $F1 $8EE4C6 . W2

>>    83 $F1 $E42902 . W3

>>    83 $F1 $119408 . W4

>>    83 $F1 $C109F3 . W5

>>    83 $F1 $A3C36E . W6

>>    83 $F1 $AC6B4B . W7

>>     4 $D1 $AD6718 . PipeMan

>>     2 $E1 $5B2B56 . Piper

>>    80 $F1 $CC06AF . Pipe

>>

>>

>>

>>George Ramsower wrote:

>>

>>>Verne

>>>

>>>Can you provide a copy of the results of this?

>>>

>>>Boot with your working disk, chx to /h0/cmds and chd to /h0 first

>>>then insert the the boot disk that is in question. Run this..

>>>

>>>ident -s /d0/os9boot

>>>

>>>Before you send the list, run that command line and make sure you

>>>didn't accidentally leave the original /dd floppy descriptor in your

>>>bootlist.

>>>

>>>George

>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>

>>>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

>>>Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [Coco] partial

>>>OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>>George:

>>>>   No luck. I even went back and created a virgin copy of the hard 

>>>>drive descriptor as dd, all the descriptors match perfectly. The

>>>>boot still gets to OS9 BOOT, accesses the hard drive, then crashes

>>>>the machine.

>>>>

>>>>Vern

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>George Ramsower wrote:

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>>Vern,

>>>>>

>>>>>I think you would be better off changing a copy of the  /h0 device

>>>>>descriptor to /dd. You already know the /h0 dd works. To set/see

>>>>>the settings on the device descriptor that is in the config

>>>>>directory, use dmode -ddh0.dd.scsi (or whatever the file name is

>>>>>you will be using. The difference is the - and the / Until you get

>>>>>it to work, you can't dmode it in memory, yes?

>>>>>

>>>>>Here's what MY descriptors look like and how they differ..

>>>>>Your descriptor will be VERY different than mine, but when you

>>>>>compare YOUR /h0 and the /dd descriptors, the only differences

>>>>>should be as mine are different from each  other.

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>OS9[T2]:dump ddh0.dd.scsi

>>>>>

>>>>>Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0 2 4 6 8 A C E

>>>>>----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------

>>>>>0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF  .   M.1.!q.].$.'...

>>>>>0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401       

>>>>>t.......g...4.4. 0020  0864 E401 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 6B30    

>>>>> .dd.RBFSCSISYSk0 0030  61                                   a

>>>>>

>>>>>OS9[T2]:dump h0.dd.scsi

>>>>>

>>>>>Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E

>>>>>----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------

>>>>>0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF       

>>>>>.M.1.!q.].$.'... 0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401    

>>>>>   t.......g...4.4. 0020  0868 B001 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 03C5 

>>>>>      .h0.RBFSCSISYS.E 0030  D0

>>>>>

>>>>>I think this is the area that needs work on your system. I also

>>>>>went through the same thing when I wanted to use the hard drive as

>>>>>the default drive. However, I got lucky and got the descriptor

>>>>>right the first time. My problem was finding out what files had to

>>>>>be on the floppy and on the hard drive.

>>>>>

>>>>>The driver is working, the /h0 is working, but the /dd is not. You

>>>>>have all the files where they need to be and this is the only

>>>>>problem that I can see.

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>

>>>>>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"

>>>>><coco at maltedmedia.com> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:26 AM

>>>>>Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on

>>>>>topic)

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>>Robert:

>>>>>>   These are the exact same descriptors that work fine with /dd

>>>>>>   as 

>>>>>>the floppy. I changed the names by doing a rename with ezgen.

>>>>>>

>>>>>>Vern

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

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