[Coco] System gen problem - SOLVED!!

[Robert Gault]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>
>> Works fine for me. Newest Nitros9 from CVS, and newest server code
>> (linux version) from CVS.
>
> Thanks to Robert Gault, I now understand the problem.
>
> Boisy: The DW drivers found in the nitros9/6809l2/modules/rbf directory
> in the nos96809l2_dw3.dsk image from Cloud9's web site appear to be the
> problem. Robert built an image in his environment and sent it to me. It
> worked fine. When I dug into things, I discovered that the CRC values
> for rbdw3.dr and dw3.sb in his image were different from those on the
> Cloud9 image (downloaded two days ago!).
>
> I extracted the drivers from Robert's image with ezgen and assembled a
> boot file using them (same list and script that had been uncooperative
> all along). Bingo! Works fine.
>
> FYI: I tried the dw3 drivers from the latest nitros9 cvs, but I used
> them with a slightly older version of nitros9. That may be why they
> failed to cooperate. I did not want to use the script from the CVS
> sandbox because I was trying to iterate into the problem. Best not to
> change too many variables at one time.
>
> Thanks to everyone who put up with my incessant questions. I'm just glad
> to have figured out the problem. Hopefully the images on Cloud9 will be
> updated to prevent others from going through this :-).
>
> Steve
>
>

I'm not sure whether the files came from the Cloud-9 site, I think so, or 
whether they were compiled from the source code before the recent updates.

I looks like updates to NitrOS-9 code, perhaps for the Java server, no longer 
match the available server at Sourceforge.