[Coco] Hard drive trouble

[Bob Devries]

It is usual practice for descriptors /DD and /H0 to point to the same drive.

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Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgeramsower at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Hard drive trouble



> Don't forget the original problem. When I do a dir /h0 or a dir /h1, I get 

> the result from /h0 on both.

>

> Even with or without an /h1 in the system.

> I can change the default drive from /h0 to /h1 and do a dir /dd and /h0 

> responds.

>

> It makes no sense at all.

>

>

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Bob Devries"

>> The command to create the hard drive descriptors is SCSIDESC. I used that 

>> command to create my descriptors. The programme asks a number of 

>> questions regarding your controller and the drive's parameters, and will 

>> also create the /DD descriptor, IIRC.

>>

>> --

>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

>>

>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me

>> the capacity to be his spokesman,

>> so that I know how to help the weary.

>>

>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl

>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

>>

>> ----- Original Message ----- 

>> From: "George Ramsower" <georgeramsower at gmail.com>

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

>> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:12 PM

>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Hard drive trouble

>>

>>

>>> The coco output looks fine using the font: Lucida Console.

>>>

>>> ----- Original Message ----- 

>>> From: "George Ramsower"

>>>

>>>> Okay...

>>>>

>>>> I saved h0 and h1 to the hard drive and did this again. Before, I used 

>>>> the descriptors I had in the config directory.

>>>> The results were the same except for the DNS setting in /h1.

>>>> Now the cmp looks like this:

>>>>

>>>> OS9[t3]:cmp h0 h1

>>>>

>>>> Differences

>>>>

>>>> byte      #1 #2

>>>> ========  == ==

>>>> 00000013  00 01

>>>> 00000022  B0 B1

>>>> 0000002E  03 58

>>>> 0000002F  C5 D5

>>>> 00000030  D0 D6

>>>>

>>>> Bytes compared:   00000031

>>>> Bytes different:  00000005

>>>>

>>>> Here are dumps of h0 and h1:

>>>>

>>>> OS9[t3]:dump h0

>>>>

>>>> 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                                       P

>>>>

>>>> OS9[t3]:dump h1

>>>>

>>>> 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 0101 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401  t.......g...4.4.

>>>> 0020  0868 B101 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 58D5  .h1.RBFSCSISYSXU

>>>> 0030  D6                                       V

>>>>

>>>> When this comes back to me, I'm going to copy it and paste it into a WP 

>>>> program or NotePad or WordPad or each to see what results in what I see 

>>>> on Hypeterminal and the coco. This email thing makes it all messed up 

>>>> looking.

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> This question is directed to anyone that can help.

>>>>>

>>>>> I played with this problem for a while, day before yesterday. I 

>>>>> created another new boot disk, wth older device descriptors and the 

>>>>> result was the same.

>>>>> So I compared the device descriptors from various iterations that I 

>>>>> have of OS9 in different directories and they all match exactly as 

>>>>> they should.

>>>>>

>>>>> Finally, want to show you a cmp of the h0 and h1 descriptors to see if 

>>>>> anyone has a suggestion as to why they both access the same drive. 

>>>>> I've tried this on two drives with the same result. I jumpered each 

>>>>> drive as h0.... well actually removed the jumper to make them h0. Only 

>>>>> one drive in the system each time.

>>>>> This is the Kenton SCSI card, Kenton driver. I don't remember where I 

>>>>> got the descriptors, but they used to work. I used both drive on this 

>>>>> machine and used /h1 as a backup. If I made changes, I don't remember 

>>>>> doing so.

>>>>>

>>>>> Here's a cmp of the descriptors..

>>>>>

>>>>> OS9[t3]:cmp h0.dd.scsi h1.dd.scsi

>>>>>

>>>>> Differences

>>>>>

>>>>> byte      #1 #2

>>>>> ========  == ==

>>>>> 00000013  00 01

>>>>> 00000016  80 81

>>>>> 00000022  B0 B1

>>>>> 0000002E  03 5C

>>>>> 0000002F  C5 D1

>>>>> 00000030  D0 B4

>>>>>

>>>>> Bytes compared:   00000031

>>>>> Bytes different:  00000006

>>>>>

>>>>> Is this the way they are supposed to be?

>>>>>

>>>>> In byte 016, the 81 gets changed to 80 in operation because it won't 

>>>>> work with an 81. That's the DNS setting.

>>>>> I'm pretty sure byte 013 is the actual SCSI ID. I have no idea what 

>>>>> byte 022 is.

>>>>> The last three, I think are CRC stuff. Yes?

>>>>>

>>>>> George

>>>>

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