[Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC

[Rick Taylor]

I am doing the exact same thing (ST-250R drive), which is why I ordered
extra memory from Cloud9 last week :-)


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, L. Curtis Boyle
<curtisboyle at sasktel.net>wrote:

> You may not have enough system RAM left to load them after a boot - you
> may have to merge those into your boot file and then reboot (if you load
> them after the fact, it will take an entire 8k block of system RAM).
>
> L. Curtis Boyle
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net
>
>
>
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Philip Zeigler wrote:
>
> > 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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