[Coco] apparently an incomplete errmsg file

[Aaron Wolfe]

Take this with a grain of salt as it's been a while...also i'm trying
to use some ascii art so fixed width will make this look
normal-er-ishy.

I think you'll have this structure:

        dw3
      /  |  \
     /   |   \
 rbdw3 scdwp scdwn
 |       |     |
 /xX..   /p    /nX..

scdwp and scdwn are SCF, rbdw3 is RBF.  All need to talk to dw3 (dw3
does the actual I/O whether to bitbanger, Becker/Boisy interface, or
other).

HTH
-Aaron



On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2012 19:45:54 Aaron Wolfe did opine:
>
>> I'm not sure how or if DW can fit into the L3 split between rbf and
>> scf because it is both.
>> The RBF stuff is the drives of course, and the SCF is the virtual
>> channels, printer, etc.
>> Both use a common module for the serial I/O though.. so maybe it has
>> to be loaded into
>> both maps, scf and rbf?  Not sure how that works out.
>>
> Thats an idea, but that modules name?  The problem then might be in keeping
> the two copies in 'synch' for the traffic they generate?
>
> I'll try first, moving ALL the dw driver stuff into normal memory.  That
> way, ioman won't be saddled with trying to figure out which driver to send
> the request to.
>
> Back later with results since I have to do all this at the coco's keyboard
> due to needing to reboot to a dw less boot in order to format the disk.
>
> Thanks Aaron.
>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 16 October 2012 19:12:23 Gene Heskett did opine:
>> >> Greetings everybody running nitros9;
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to put together a boot floppy for nitros9 level 3.
>> >>
>> >> I can get it to go so far as displaying the module list on the boot
>> >> screen, but it only gets as far as the i2xto*]
>> >>
>> >> AIUI, that ] is the error code, and is ascii 93.  Unforch, my errmsg
>> >> file does not define an error 93, so it would have to be a recent
>> >> addition.
>> >>
>> >> Anybody have a clue what the heck an error 93 actually is?
>> >
>> > Doh!  Add $80, get 221, module not found.  Now, if we just had a clue
>> > WHAT module wasn't found.  Sigh.  That boot contains every module
>> > that a working right now level2 with dw boot contains, just
>> > re-arranged to fit the level3 idea of Alan DeKok's layout.
>> >
>> > I am wondering if, despite his putting all the scf descriptors into
>> > normal memory, the dw related stuff needs to be in the scf memory.
>> > Next test I guess...
>> >
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >> Cheers, Gene
>> >
>> > Cheers, Gene
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