[Coco] Floppy - less boot , was Re: VI and VIRQ

Diego Barizo diegoba at adinet.com.uy
Tue May 13 19:57:26 EDT 2008 

Now that it comes to mention. I've been trying to create a custom 1s35t 
boot disk for my HDB-DOS / SuperIDE setup, completely unsuccessfully so far.
Looking around, I found a mention of the bug in the rb1773 driver, and 
the symptoms match the ones I see, freezing after tb ...... at boot time.
Will this bug affect an attempt to boot from a HDB-DOS virtual drive?
When I try that, I get all the ..... at boot, and then bCCCC%%V Date 
Save Unlink GrfDrv Backup Date # t*j , and final freeze.
Here is my bootlist file, which could be the cause of my problems...

* Kernel/System Section
*
* These modules are mandatory.
../MODULES/KERNEL/krnp2
*../MODULES/KERNEL/krnp3_perr
*../MODULES/KERNEL/krnp4_regdump
../MODULES/SYSMODS/ioman
../MODULES/SYSMODS/init
*
*
* RBF Section
*
../MODULES/RBF/rbf.mn
*
* DriveWire driver (Cloud-9 product)
*../MODULES/RBF/drivewire.dr
* DriveWire descriptors - select as needed
*../MODULES/RBF/ddx0.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/x0.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/x1.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/x2.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/x3.dd
*
* SuperDriver Package (Cloud-9 product)
../MODULES/RBF/rbsuper.dr
* Select Low level SCSI and/or IDE driver
*../MODULES/RBF/lltc3.dr
../MODULES/RBF/llide.dr
* SuperDriver descriptors - select as needed
* SCSI descriptors (IDs 0-7)
*../MODULES/RBF/s0_tc3.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/s1_tc3.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/s2_tc3.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/s3_tc3.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/s4_tc3.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/s5_tc3.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/s6_tc3.dd
* SCSI HDB-DOS descriptor
*../MODULES/RBF/sh_ide.dd
* IDE descriptors (master/slave)
../MODULES/RBF/i0_ide.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/i1_ide.dd
* IDE HDB-DOS descriptor
*../MODULES/RBF/ih_ide.dd
*
* WD1773 floppy support for Tandy and compatible disk controllers
../MODULES/RBF/rb1773.dr
* WD1773 floppy support for Disto Super Controller II
*../MODULES/RBF/rb1773_scii_ff74.dr
*../MODULES/RBF/rb1773_scii_ff58.dr
* Floppy device descriptors
* DD - default device - choose one if needed
*../MODULES/RBF/ddd0_35s.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/ddd0_40d.dd
../MODULES/RBF/ddd0_80d.dd
* D0 - drive 0 - choose one if needed
*../MODULES/RBF/d0_35s.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/d0_40d.dd
../MODULES/RBF/d0_80d.dd
* D1 - drive 1 - choose one if needed
../MODULES/RBF/d1_35s.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/d1_40d.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/d1_80d.dd
* D2 - drive 2 - choose one if needed
*../MODULES/RBF/d2_35s.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/d2_40d.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/d2_80d.dd
* D3 - drive 3 - choose if needed
*../MODULES/RBF/d3_35s.dd
*
* RAMDisk driver
*../MODULES/RBF/rammer.dr
* RAMDisk descriptors - select as needed
*../MODULES/RBF/ddr0_8k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/ddr0_96k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/ddr0_128k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/ddr0_192k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/r0_8k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/r0_96k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/r0_128k.dd
*../MODULES/RBF/r0_192k.dd
* Memory device descriptor
*../MODULES/RBF/md.dd
***************************************
* SCF Section
*
../MODULES/SCF/scf.mn
*
* CoCo 3 I/O driver
* Joystick modules: choose Joystick OR
* (M)icrosoft or (L)ogitech mouse using 6551 or 6552 ACIA
../MODULES/SCF/vtio.dr
../MODULES/SCF/keydrv_cc3.sb
../MODULES/SCF/snddrv_cc3.sb
../MODULES/SCF/joydrv_joy.sb
*../MODULES/SCF/joydrv_6551M.sb
*../MODULES/SCF/joydrv_6552M.sb
*../MODULES/SCF/joydrv_6551L.sb
*../MODULES/SCF/joydrv_6552L.sb
*
* CoGrf/CoWin subroutine module
* Use CoWin with Multi-Vue; use CoGrf
* for basic text and graphic window support..
* Select only one.
*../MODULES/SCF/cogrf.io
../MODULES/SCF/cowin.io
*
* CoVDG I/O subroutine module
* Select one or both
../MODULES/SCF/covdg.io
*../MODULES/SCF/covdg_small.io
*
* Select only one term descriptor
*../MODULES/SCF/term_vdg.dt
*../MODULES/SCF/term_win40.dt
../MODULES/SCF/term_win80.dt
*../MODULES/SCF/term_bbt.dt
*../MODULES/SCF/term_sc6551.dt
*
* Select as many window descriptors as needed
../MODULES/SCF/w.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w1.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w2.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w3.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w4.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w5.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w6.dw
../MODULES/SCF/w7.dw
*
* Select as many VDG window descriptors as needed
../MODULES/SCF/v1.dw
*../MODULES/SCF/v2.dw
*../MODULES/SCF/v3.dw
*../MODULES/SCF/v4.dw
*../MODULES/SCF/v5.dw
*../MODULES/SCF/v6.dw
*../MODULES/SCF/v7.dw
*
* Serial port drivers
* CoCo Bit-Banger terminal port
../MODULES/SCF/scbbt.dr
../MODULES/SCF/t1.dd
* 6551 ACIA
*../MODULES/SCF/sc6551.dr
*../MODULES/SCF/t2_sc6551.dd
*../MODULES/SCF/t3_sc6551.dd
* Tandy Modem Pak
../MODULES/SCF/modpak.dr
../MODULES/SCF/m1.dd
*../MODULES/SCF/m2.dd
*
* Printer drivers
../MODULES/SCF/scbbp.dr
../MODULES/SCF/p.dd
*
* VRN is a driver module used by certain games, including King's Quest III,
* Leisure Suit Larry and Flight Simulator II. A /nil descriptor is also
* supported.
../MODULES/SCF/vrn.dr
../MODULES/SCF/vi.dd
../MODULES/SCF/ftdd.dd
*
***************************************
* Pipe Section
*
* Pipes are a useful but optional part of a system.
../MODULES/PIPE/pipeman.mn
../MODULES/PIPE/piper.dr
../MODULES/PIPE/pipe.dd
*
***************************************
* Clock Section
*
* Select one clock module depending upon your power line frequency
* (60Hz = USA/Canada; 50Hz = Europe, Australia)
../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock_60hz
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock_50hz
* Select one clock2 module that supports your real-time clock, if any.
* Besides support for the internal software clock, the following
* hardware clocks are supported: Burke & Burke, Disto 2-N-1, Disto 4-N-1,
* Eliminator, Harris, SmartWatch, Cloud-9, the MESS emulator, Jeff
* Vavasour's CoCo emulator, and DriveWire.
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_soft
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_bnb
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_disto2
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_disto4
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_elim
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_harris
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_smart
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_jvemu
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_messemu
../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_cloud9
*../MODULES/CLOCKS/clock2_dw
*
***************************************
* System Kick-Start Module
*
* Choose which startup module you wish to use. (sysgo_dd is recommended
* for most configurations.)
*
* Alternatively, this module can reside in the root directory of the
* boot device, saving precious system RAM.
*../MODULES/SYSMODS/sysgo_dd
../MODULES/SYSMODS/sysgo_h0

>
> Any idea about the rest of it, like the non booting ss35 disk?  Or is it 
> possible to do a basic "backup 0 to 127" from a 40 track DS disk? (my setup 
> is a 1GB scsi disk, with HDB-DOS new enough to handle virtual floppies, but I 
> don't recall what size the virtual's are, os9 side formatted for 4 sector 
> clusters)
>
> Which brings up the question, is it possible to access these virtual disks 
> from nitros9 with a carefully crafted SO, S1 etc descriptors for rbsuper?
>
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