[Coco] New system

[gene heskett]

On Friday, December 30, 2011 02:09:31 PM Bill Pierce did opine:

> Anyone have ANY info on booting OS9 on a Burke & Burke HD system?  I
> think it's one of their older systems. This has no ROM and I have no
> boot disk. It seems the original owner had a disk that booted it from
> Basic with "DOS"
 
What I can recall was that I only made it work once.  It works by loading 
whatever is on cylinder 132 IIRC, with an alternate load from 134 I think. 
(IIRC only if the XT rom is in it) But that's subject to my poor memory 
since there was apparently some oddity in the read timing of my very early 
kit, particularly when reading FAT sectors, so it would read a sector full 
of zeros from the FAT during about 1% of the writes it made.  That was my 
computers-101 introduction to maintaining an os9 file system with dEd, 
definitely not a pleasant time.

That was one of the original kits, probably seriel number 3 if there were 
such, a black sandwich of alu with post spacers, and with the RTC.  I even 
tried 2 different WD controller cards without effecting that problem.  But 
I later bought one of the formed, gold colored kits for my office machine, 
and that one has yet to drop a single bit that I know of.  It Just 
Works(TM).  And I still have that one.

I should have the disks, but TBT, the software is part of the Nitros9 tree, 
under 3rdparty I believe.  But I've no idea if the rom images are in there.  
If not, its still usable but boots from a floppy.  In any event if the roms 
aren't there, I'm not sure how I could extract it from my working 
controller.

> thanx
> Bill Pierce
> ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> 
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