[Coco] New system

[tonym]

I uploaded to maltedmedia the XT-ROM 3.0 image, if you can burn an (E)PROM, and all required manuals and software to get the autoboot working straight from the HDD.

 Let me know if you can't find it, and I'll try to dig it all back up.

 Now, whether this XT-ROM 3.0 autoboot is NitrOS9 compatible, I'll need to defer to the others here...

Tony 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
 Sent 12/30/2011 2:30:04 PM
 To: coco at maltedmedia.com
 Subject: Re: [Coco] New system

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 > > > -- > Coco mailing list > Coco at maltedmedia.com > http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train. -- Coco mailing list Coco at maltedmedia.com http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco ����������