[Coco] HDB-DOS error - HARD DRIVE NOT FOUND

[David Roper]

Gremlins.


On 3 January 2012 15:52, Jim Hickle <jlhickle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Any ideas why HDB-DOS reports "HARD DRIVE NOT FOUND" though all drives
> work with NITROS9?
>
> TC^3 controller, disks are: 0 - hard drive, 5 - ZIP drive, 6 - CD-ROM
>
> HDB-DOS and this setup worked okay a couple years ago.  Now it doesn't
> find either the hard or ZIP drives.  I tried running wizard.bas from a new
> copy of the HDB-DOS disk.  Still doesn't find drive, but now it gives me 15
> seconds to choose to restart, boot os9 and something about drives 0 through
> 3.
>
> NITROS9 is working, but the weird thing is that at first it wouldn't boot,
> then things started working a bit at a time. This took place over about a
> week.
>
> - First didn't recognize any SCSI drive.
> - Then it would boot to the hard drive from a very few of my boot
> floppies, worked with the hard disk (/s0) but trying to access the others
> gave error 246 - NOT READY, and then /s0 also gave error 246.
> - Next /s5 and /sc6 could be accessed, but only if system was booted from
> the Superdriver disk.
> - Eventually all drives work and system boots from any of the boot
> floppies.
>
> Another odd thing is that only once did the system time get set from the
> clock in the TC^3.  Every startup before and after put us back in January
> 1900.  This evening it started setting the time, though I hadn't changed
> anything (including the floppy from which it booted).
>
>
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