[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

Wed Dec 5 14:34:45 EST 2012

I have a second "SAFE MODE" drive on CF. it's is the 254. So whenever
a fresh new os9boot doesn't work I can enter in safe mode and retry
it.

But there is a little trick on os9gen. You need to set the option to
"single disk" IRRC is -s. Otherwise you will get a change drive ID
error. The counterpart is you need to press C several times. But you
don't have to write back the image to the disk again.

If you os9gen to a DW disk you can use WIRED to write it back on your
disk 128. It's faster than any basic09 solution.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2012 13:23:07 Luis Antoniosi did opine:
>
>> > If it can't, it is miss-configured.
>>
>> No it's not misconfiguration. I had to recompile NitrOS to figure out
>> what was missing. The $HDBDOS variable in empty. Just check the
>> current mercurial repo. I'm not using lwtools (i don't even knwo to to
>> config it). There is no /IH, it's is /I0 instead. If you check the
>> boot you will see two I0.
>>
>> So all rbsuper are being compiled without hdbdos support. It had to
>> manually change the makefile and include the parameters by hand. Now
>> it works for me. I can read/write on /IH and the STP param works fine
>> now.
>
> Pretty much what I committed to the hg 'tip' repo last night, or you can
> get from my pull of it at the nitros9 link on my web page in the sig below.
>
> There is a branch that uses lwtools, but I've not pulled that branch, what
> I have still uses mamou to build it all.
>
>> Now I can os9gen directly on /IH to change the OS9Boot no need for DW
>> anymore.
>
> So can I, but paranoia makes me make a boot floppy which I then can install
> either with a 'dd' I wrote in basic09, or the HDB-DOS backup0to128 command.
> That way I have a floppy copy I can re-install if things go south.
>
> The hg push I made last night should have fixed that.  There should now be
> an /i0_ide.dd and an /i1_ide.dd, and an /ih_ide.dd.  They are built in my
> copy of the repo.  Or you can get the fixed .dsk's from my web page.  They
> should contain an i0_ide.dd, an i1_ide.dd and an ih_ide.dd.
> They will not be configured for use however because we have no knowledge of
> the size of hard drive you may be using.
>
> Here, i have a pair of old seagate hawk scsi-ii drives, 1 Gb each.  My
> system is setup for about 498 megs for os9 use, at a cluster size of 4 on
> the first drive.
>
> So a look at my /dd@ drive with ded shows the DD.TOT (first 3 bytes) as
> 0x1DBB90.  That 1DBB90 is the first thing to write down, because if your
> HDB-DOS drives are located beyond this DD.TOT, then you would first use
> dmode -ih_ide.dd to set that descriptors wpc=1D ofs=BB90, substituting your
> values for mine of course.  At that point, you _should_ be able to set that
> descriptors 'stp' to any of the HDB-DOS drives by translating the HDB-DOS
> drive number to a hexadecimal value and writing it into that descriptors
> stp variable.  Drive128 becomes 0x80 IOW.
>
> I'm scsi rather than ide, and setup so my default nitros9 boot drive is
> HDB-DOS drive128.  Which is accessed from a nitros9 boot by doing a dmode
> /sh stp=80.  Then:
> {t2|09}/X0/NITROS9/6309L2/MODULES/RBF:dir -e /sh
>
>  Directory of /sh  2012/12/05 13:55
>
> Owner  Last modified   Attributes Sector Bytecount Name
> ----- ---------------- ---------- ------ --------- ----
>    0  2012/11/29 19:53  ------wr       A      76F5 OS9Boot
>    0  2012/11/29 19:52  ----r-wr      82      1200 bttemp
>    0  2012/10/29 12:56  ----r-wr      95       6FE mb.dw3fd
>    0  2012/10/31 16:19  ----r-wr      9D       6FE mb.dw3hd
>    0  2012/10/30 00:41  ----r-wr      A5      215B dw3hd.bl
>    0  2012/11/22 03:10  --e-rewr      C8       200 sysgo
>    0  2012/11/29 19:54  d-ewrewr      CB        80 CMDS
>    0  2012/11/05 07:14  ----r-wr     114       2D8 ChangeLog
>
> My mb scripts are entirely my own composition, which accounts for the extra
> files, the 3rd thru 5th are the files that actually built that disk.
> Everything but that OS9Boot is superfluous as the default init module in
> that boot switches to /dd to run sysgo, which sets up /dd and /dd/cmds and
> runs startup.  Both mb. scripts are, except for the boot module written in
> the boottrack(34) is boot_1773 in the *fd version, and boot_tc3 in the *hd
> version.  That file bttemp is a copy of track 34 in case I need to look at
> it without running KERNEL_2_DIR on it first to make track 34 actually have
> a directory entry.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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