[Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC

[Philip Zeigler]

I've created a new h0.dd descriptor with ddmaker that uses BBFhdisk in case I want to format.  Since I've worked out my issue with creating boot disks on my floppy drive, I've added bbfhdisk.dr and h0.dd right after RBF.mn and created a new boot floppy.

Unfortunately, after I boot up it will still hang when I do a dir /h0.

The Seagate ST-225 sounds like it is spinning up fine and the head motor sounds fine when the drive powers up.  I'm not seeing the green light come on when accessing the drive.

Anyone have any other suggestions for troubleshooting?

The goal is to access the hard drive and copy the contents to my SuperIDE system.  It is the drive I used 20 years ago and has a lot of source for old projects.

Thanks!

Philip




On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:57 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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