[Coco] I'm Lost

[Mark Marlette]

Ed,
Sounds like the MPI switch is still on slot 1. The switch only needs to be be pointed to the sIDE at boot to get to the FLASH ROM. It can be moved at anytime to the FDC or slot 4. You can slide switch or poke the MPI.....
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Mark
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Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am having a hard time creating a floppy boot disk as described in the
>SuperiDE read.me file.
>My system is:
>CoCo3 with Triad memory upgrade
>MPI
> - Slot 1 = SuperIDE using CF card (no separate IDE drive)
> - Slot 2 = Tandy Stereo Pak
> - Slot 3 = Modified SSP
> - Slot 4 = DIsto SCII with HDB-DOS in ROM
>2 DSDD 3.5" drives
>Roy's VGA adapter connected to and LCD display
>
>When I boot the system, the MPI selector is on slot #1
>I choose the option to boot NitrOS9 from virtual drive 255 via the
>Autoexec.bas file
>
>I am trying to run the mb_floppy_d0 script (as is) before I start
>playing
>with ahy changes
>
>What happens is that I get Error 240 and can't even format the
>diskette.
>Using the other options in the autoexec file, I either can't boot
>NirtOS9
>from the CF card, of can't access the physical floppy drive
>Eveb doing a Drive OFF command before issuing a DOS255 command, does
>nat
>allow me to access physical drive '0'
>Could it be the fact that my floppy controller has HDB-DOS as well as
>the
>SuperIDE has HDB-DOS and they are conflicting with each other?
>
>What I want to do is to make a backup 'bootable' floppy drive, or even
>create a bootable floppy using the CF card.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
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