[Coco] enable no-halt disto driver

[Stephen Castello]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:16:29 -0400, Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:


>> If you want additional help, you are going to have to report an exact 

>> description of what you are doing. Generalizations mean nothing when it 

>> comes to troubleshooting. Posting, "It doesn't work!" or "I can't make 

>> it work." will get you nowhere.

>> 

>> So, post the contents of your mb and bootlist files. Which version of 

>> NitrOS-9 are you working with? Is this on an emulator or real Coco 

>> system? Specify in detail the hardware or emulator being used. What 

>> disks are in which drives and what are the drive specs?

>> 

>> You have implied you are using a Disto SCII but have not really said you 

>> are. So, do you have this controller or are you just trying to use the 

>> drivers with a normal controller? If you have the controller, what are 

>> the jumper settings, ie. is $FF58 or $FF74 I/O in use?

>> 

>

>Rob, that wasn't enough detail for you? heh

>

>Certainly. This is a real 512k CoCo 3 with a 6309. Playing with nos9 

>3.02.06 and a real Disto SC2.

>

>I extracted the bootlist from the floppy image on a linux box with 

>toolshed. I commented out the tandy 1773 line and removed the comment 

>from the $FF74 version of the SCII driver.

>

>I put it back into the image,and wrote the resulting image with omniflop 

>on my doze box (because that f{blank}ing pile of crap fdutils is almost 

>as useless as the mailing list that "supports" it, but I digress)

>

>Then booted the resultant disk, did a dmode on /d1 cyl=50 and ran the mb 

>script to build a new disk in /d1. The disk is formatted correctly.

>

>Step 2 (creating custom boot track) completes

>

>Step 3 (create the bootfile and boot track) always blows up. this run, 

>for instance, I got:

>

>./MODULES/SCF/m1.dd



That line should be:  ../MODULES/SCF/m1.dd
Your missing one of the periods.

Stephen
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