[Coco] cowin vs cogrf question

[Retro Canada]

I do it. I write on my /IH drive. But you need to use os9gen with -S
option, otherwise you are going to have a Disk Id Change error.


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 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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