[Coco] Glenside IDE Hard Drive Interface --- HOW-TO

[Bob Devries]

Randy,

looking at the 40-track Nitros9 disks images, the second disk has the 
directory structure you're after, except that the NITROS9/6809LII is 
missing. So the path becomes:

/D0/MODULES/RBF

Copy the Hx.dd files there along with the driver (*.dr) file.

Yes, you do need to use edit, since that is the only text editor supplied 
with stock NitrOS9. I wish it were otherwise. IMHO, edit, while usable, is 
not a good text editor.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Just" <randyjust at comcast.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Glenside IDE Hard Drive Interface --- HOW-TO


>
> OK, this is where I am right now.  I did load syscall.  I thought I was 
> supposed to load it under BASIC.
> An error happened.  Then I just did a load /d0/CMDS/syscall  I am learning 
> <grin>.
>
> I then ran makedesc.b09 and at this point I have a series of *.dd files as 
> follows in my /d1/IDE2.1 directory:
>
> H0.dd
> H1.dd
> H2.dd
> H3.dd
> H4.dd
>
> From directions I have, I am supposed to copy the descriptors into:
>
> NITROS9/6809LII/MODULES/RBF
>
> Problem: This directory doesn't exist on my NitrOS9 boot-up diskette.
>
> Then I am supposed to copy the proper driver into the same directory.  Not 
> sure what exactly the
> property driver is supposed to be.  I see a series of files that appear to 
> be driver files in my IDE2.0
> subdirectory relating to the port (i.e. 70 vs. 50).  Still uncertain which 
> file is the actual driver.  Confusing
> as heck.
>
> Next, I am supposed to edit standard.bl and in the RBF section, add the 
> glenside driver and descriptors.  Not
> sure what I am supposed to use for an editor other than edit.
>
> Can you please advise as to the steps I need to do after creating the *.dd 
> files?
>
> At 04:45 PM 11/4/2007, you wrote:
>>Randy,
>>you're right...
>>It seems that *none* of the modules used with Basic09... inkey, syscall, 
>>gfx, gfx2 ... are supplied on the NitrOS9 distro. That seems like madness 
>>to me. If you have the Tandy supplied disks, they will be in the CMDS dir 
>>of one of the two disks they supplied.
>>
>
>
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