[Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

both are at FF50 ? You can change it on superIDE but you will need t
reflash it too :(

drivewire is your way


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net> wrote:

> Actually it seems to be a conflict with the SuperIDE controller.  I
> removed the SuperIDE controller and booted from the floppy.  I can now
> access /h0.   Guess I'll copy everything to drivewire.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net> wrote:
>
> > 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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