[Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC

[Mark Marlette]

Bob,

That user's system was built with the scripts. So if you are getting an error 207 something is really wrong.

Been awhile since I read the read.me file in the root.....

The floppy boot script of course takes the longest to build. Due to it is an emergency boot, not a minimal boot.

The hard boot script, about 30 seconds to build.

The HDB boot is the same as the hard boot except for the boot track. So if the hard boot works and the path to the HDB boot is good, it will work. To test the hard boot, just reset to HDBDOS, type 'F' at menu...with disk in drive 0 type DOS

Not sure how many know the process but once a good hard boot is created, test it first! Then run the hdb script, it makes a SSDD floppy 35T.

Reset back to HDB-DOS, from the menu press 'F' Now if you don't want to overwrite your current boot, till it is verified and we will use DRIVE 254 as an example BLANK HDB-DOS disk.....

VERIFYON
BACKUP 0 to 254     'make sure you have the HDB-DOS disk that was created with the scripts in drive 0

once done....

RUN"LINK:4
DOS 254

If that works then you can then overwrite DRIVE 255 if you would like......

Pretty simple....

There are ways of doing this without a floppy but there are issues that need to be resolved, and is best to keep it simple and walk first. Others have explained the issues here before.

Now as far as CDF  not working, last I saw from Chris was,  he replicated the issue. My Emails to Chris must be going to the bit bucket as he has not answered my personal messages to him or he is mad at me... :) Not likely.....

Again the scripts were used to add CDF to the common distro from C9 and used to build that system, all worked. CDF was not checked out at that time but was checked at an earlier time and CDF did work at one time. So Chris will have to resolve that!

Anyone that builds without the scripts are making changes on the fly, can be done, don't recommend it, scripts always work, once working.

Now if corruption has occurred, then anyone's guess. DCHECK, etc...I was told at one point that the CF was removed with power applied.....NOT good!

Regards,

Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com





________________________________
 From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC
 

Bill,
I'll have to pull you up on this one.

Philip's descriptor is /hd, not /dd. It should work fine alongside the other 
descriptors.

Other comments regardsing merging the driver and descriptor may help it to 
work, but placing it in the OS9Boot will be the best. However, it is still 
possible for that to fail. I'm working with another user trying to set up a 
working OS9Boot for his SuperIDE with CDF. Currently the boot fails with a 
"W" at the last; which IIRC means ERROR 207 - Memory full.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC


>
> Phillip,
> First if you've already booted, then you probably already have a "/dd" 
> descriptor in memory. You cannot have 2 "/dd" descriptors in memory at the 
> same time. Just name your HD descriptor "/h0". Once it and the driver are 
> loaded, type "iniz /h0". If you do not get an error, then it should work 
> from this point.
>
> Bill Pierce
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 3:19 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC
>
>
> Here is what I'm trying to do that isn't working….
>
> I've booted from Nitros9 6309 image from DW.
> I've copied the ddmaker and bbhdisk.dr files to /dd/cmds
> I've run ddmaker hd to make a new descriptor for the hard drive using the
> bbhdisk.dr driver.
>
> I then load bbhdisk.dr and load hd.dd
>
> dir /hd just hangs….hitting break will result in everything giving an 
> error 207
> out of memory.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>
>
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get my CoCo3 system going after too many years away :)
>>
>> I'm having trouble finding drivers for my B&B XT-RTC so I can see what's 
>> on my
> ST-225 hard drive.
>>
>> I don't need to boot to the hard drive, just be able to access it.
>>
>> My current system is CoCo 3 (6309) 512K with MPI (FDC slot 4, B&B slot 3,
> RS232Pak slot 2 and SuperIDE slot 1).  I have a CF card in the SuperIDE 
> but I'm
> mostly using drivewire.
>>
>>
>> FYI… the ST-225 was my primary hard drive and I did boot to it with 
>> XT-ROM
> 2.4.  It had stock OS9L2 on it.  I'm hoping to grab a lot of my C source 
> files
> from it.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated… I used to be good at this 20 years ago!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Philip Zeigler
>>
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