[Coco] So, I have this NitrOS-9 disk...

[Christopher Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ladd" <drencor at gamepixel.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 5:21:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] So, I have this NitrOS-9 disk...
> 
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Christopher Smith
> <csmith at wolfram.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > I've been trying to boot a NitrOS-9 disk I got from Cloud-9 a while
> > ago.
> >  It's a level 1 disk, apparently for the regular CoCo with the
> >  stock CPU.
> >  It seems to load the kernel ok, prompts for the time, and then the
> >  system
> > won't accept any input from the keyboard and the drive light just
> > kind of
> > stays on.  Any ideas?
> >
> 
> 1) Are you trying to run this in VCC, real CoCo 1/2, or a real CoCo3?
> 
> Reason why I ask is if you are trying to use NitrOS-9 L1 with VCC it
> will
> not work.

It's a real CoCo 1.  Dual floppies; drive 0 is a ds/dd and drive 1 is ds/qd if that matters.  I'm told the OS-9 disks are double-sided disks and honestly they're the first two sided thing I've tried in this drive.  I can't rule out problems with the disk, but then I can't rule out problems with anything else either.

Chris

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Christopher Smith
Systems Engineer, Wolfram Research