[Coco] enable no-halt disto driver
Mike Pepe
lamune at doki-doki.net
Sun Aug 20 21:16:29 EDT 2006
> 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
ERROR 216
and then it drops to step 4, where it copies shell and grfdrv over.
The resulting disk is not bootable.
This happens even if I do it from the stock image with the stock
bootlist file.
So, either I'm doing something wrong, I have a bad floppy image, or I
found a bug.
-Mike
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