[Coco] NitrOS9 stability

[Bill Gunshannon]

Interesting.  Are the TC^3's really that rare?  Glad I got one when I did.

Guess if I can get a system up with all the drivers I want I may be able to

offer testing for anyone who wants to try and fix some of this stuff.  Not

sure I have the experience with it to actually become a developer myself

but I do have the time.  :-)  Fixing OS9GEN and FORMAT seem like the first

things that I should put on my agenda.  To include rewriting them in a 
higher

level language.


Another question.  Is there anyone selling the cases for the Glenside 
IDE and

COCOSDC?  And, any idea what the cost is?


bill



On 03/01/2018 09:35 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> Bill, I run the latest version of NitrOS9 regularly and find no problems, though there's been some reported problems with the CoVDG (PMode) graphics routines. Since I don't use these drivers, I don't run into this.
> At one time I was running a GlensideIDE & DriveWire on my real Coco3, the latest SD card drivers & DriveWire for the Coco3FPGA, and VCC with EmuDsk & Drivewire drivers. None of these had problems. I don't have a system up at the moment to do any testing.
> BUT... it has been noted here on the list that there's problems with format AND os9gen, especially when running from scripts like the boot scripts provided on the distro disks.
> There was also someone (Allen Huffman??) reporting the SCSI driver (TC^9) was not working properly. The problem in fixing the SCSI driver is that no one has one to test with, at least not the current developers of NitrOS9.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 8:46 am
> Subject: [Coco] NitrOS9 stability
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> So, no luck getting anything particularly usable going with my TC^3.
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> Going to give IDE a try next.
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> But I have one big question.  Do other people find NitrOS9 unstable?
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> I find that anything beyond the trivial usually crashes the system.
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> Usually symptom is the video starts going crazy and then the system
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> just locks up.  Even when running from a remote telnet session.
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> Format and OS9GEN are the ones I use that do it the most but it often
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> just happens.  I have two complete different systems and get the
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> same behavior so I am fairly certain it is not a hardware problem.
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> Well, unless it is related to the memory upgrades which I have not
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> found a way to test yet.
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> Maybe I should try Fuzix just to see if that is more stable.
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> Any comments?
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> bill
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