[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 17 October 2012 16:37:58 Gene Heskett did opine:

> On Wednesday 17 October 2012 15:19:23 Retro Canada did opine:
> > Well not in my build using superIDE drivers. Didn't try diskette or
> > something else. Whenever I used coWin and coVDG it didn't boot.
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 17 October 2012 14:44:43 Retro Canada did opine:
> > >> I recently made a lot of level 2 boots for superIDE. It was on
> > >> trial and error as usual.
> > >> 
> > >> With CoGRF on level 2 you get all W to W15 windows 80/40 columns
> > >> but you can't run multivue.
> > >> 
> > >> To get the V1 to V4 32 columns you need CoVDG.
> > >> 
> > >> To run multivue you need CoWIN. But CoWIN cannot coexists with
> > >> CoVDG or you get a memory overflow.
> > > 
> > > Humm, they can't co-exist?  Maybe thats where some of my memory is
> > > going.
> > > 
> > > {t2|08}/DD/NITROS9/dw3install/6309L2/MODULES/SCF:mdir
> > > 
> > >    Module Directory at 14:34:01
> > > 
> > > REL         Boot        Krn         KrnP2       KrnP3       IOMan
> > > Init        RBF         rbdw3       dw3         X0          X1
> > > RBSuper     lltc3       DD          S1          SH          rb1773
> > > D0          D1          D2          SCF         VTIO        KeyDrv
> > > SndDrv      JoyDrv      CoWin       CoVDG       sc6551      Term
> > > W           W1          W2          W3          W4          W7
> > > scdwn       N           N1          N2          N3          N4
> > > N5          N6          N7          MIDI        t2          scdwp
> > > p           PipeMan     Piper       Pipe        Clock       Clock2
> > > GrfDrv      Shell       Date        DeIniz      Echo        Iniz
> > > Link        Load        Save        Unlink      inetd       MDir
> > > 
> > > And this is from the /t2 screen of my default dw enabled boot
> > > floppy.
> 
> A PS of sorts, I just rebuilt it without CoWin.  Boots just fine. AND
> smap is a heck of a lot happier, from 4k free to 9k free, 36 'pages'
> now.  Maybe I can format a floppy?  ;-)
> 
:(  No.  The HD boot I was using for these builds left me with 39 pages, 9k 
according to smap.  I installed this on on the hd, boots fine, but that 36 
pages is not enough to allow format to run w/o crashing.  This recovery 
could be fun, I don't know that I have a floppy boot that is hd aware.  
OTOH. there is nothing to stop me from writing my own mb script for /sh 
that skips the format in favor of just deleting the file os9boot and making 
a new one with os9gen.

> In fact, since I have /sh pointing at the hard drive boot location, and
> can change that to an adjacent vdisk with dmode stp=82 rather easily
> just for testing, I am tempted to replace the boottracks
> boot_rb1778_6ms module with the boot_tc3 module in mb.dw3 and fire that
> script off to do a mb on /d0 and back it up to /sh.  Then note for
> recovery and add 1260 decimal sectors to DD.BT in LSN0 of /dd and
> reboot.  If that works, then do it again to the default /sh, restore
> DD.BT and laugh all the way to the fridge. ;-)  We'll see. I don't care
> for painting myself into a corner though.
> 
> Cheers, Gene


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