[Coco] Burke & Burke controller problems

[Chuck Youse]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>
>> Does your device descriptor have the right geometry in it?  I'm  
>> thinking
>> that the driver may be eating itself on geometry calcuations - e.g.,
>>
> I'm sure it's something like that.  I'm extremely suspect of the  
> utility that generates the descriptors.  But, if that's the case  
> I'd expect it to return to the command prompt instead of hanging up.
>

Hah, you'd think that, but OS-9 drivers come in varying qualities,  
and some don't handle error conditions very well.  I'm guessing the  
drivers are in the NitrOS-9 tree, I'll take a look.

> When I run dcheck on the drive it reports the expected size, so I'm  
> hoping things are functional.

Given that dcheck will only read limited portions of the disk, don't  
be so sure :)

C.