[Coco] working with the sdc

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 03 November 2018 20:44:49 rietveld rietveld wrote:

> hi gene
>
>
> just put the sd card in your pc
>
> Drag the SETUP.DSK on to the ROOT of the SDcard
>
> Put the SD card back into the SDC
>
> type DRIVE 0, "SETUP.DSK"
>
> type RUN "SETUP.BAS"
>
> just follow the on screen instructions to install FIRMWARE (120) and
> SDC-DOS (1.6)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of tfadden
> <t.fadden at cox.net> Sent: November 3, 2018 5:01 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] working with the sdc
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at shentel.net>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: 11/3/2018 1:13:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] working with the sdc
>
> >On Wednesday 31 October 2018 21:51:39 rietveld rietveld wrote:
> >>hi
> >>
> >>I just sent you the sdc manual and the latest firmware to update the
> >>sdc ________________________________
> >>From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Gene Heskett
> >><gheskett at shentel.net> Sent: October 31, 2018 9:18 PM
> >>To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> >>Subject: [Coco] working with the sdc
> >>
> >>Greetings all;
> >>
> >>I thought, since my 1Gb Seagates are out of commish, I thought this
> >>might be a good time to make my first run sdc kit work,
> >>
> >>It seems to be recognized at power up by signing on as SDC 1.2, but
> >>anything typed, like a "dir"return is a sN error (IIRC)
> >>
> >>
> >>All 4 of the dip switches are "OFF" th red led blinks once at power
> >>up.
> >>
> >>So I guess what I need is a startup tutorial. Is there such a
> >> critter?
> >
> >Unforch, <rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> it appears that a
> >working rsdos version of DW is required, something I have never had
> > as my hdb-dos is too old.
> >
> >Installing SETUP.DSK to a 2Gb sd is accomplished in just a few
> >milliseconds, probably destructively to the sd as this system has
> > never been able to access a 256 byte sectored device since I built
> > it a decade
> >ago, the floppy hardware, when asked to read a 256 byte sectored
> > device has from the gitgo, locked the machine up tight, responding
> > only to the hardware reset on the front panel, even the 4 second
> > timer on the power button doesn't run.  So there isn't any way I
> > have at my disposal, to actually copy SETUP.DSK to a floppy disk and
> > run it from that floppy booting to HDB-DOS 1.A in the floppy as the
> > disk basic.
> >
> >With this dd written sd in it, it still logs in as sdc v1.2, but
> >anything
> >typed is an error.
> >
> >So whats next? These are 2Gb sd's, same size as came in the sdc when
> > I bought it out of the first run. And not having os9 available, I
> > can't even rzsz it to a coco floppy. I need to bootstrap this from
> > scratch, from hardware that freezes this machine when asked to deal
> > with 256 byte
> >sector.
> >
> >I need a beer, but its too early for my 1 a day.  Near beer at that
> >since
> >I'm a DM-II.
> >
> >Suggestion/bricks thrown at an old basic challenged dummy? Never
> >figured
> >I have to back clear up to the tsr-15 days to get this started again.
> >Thanks all.
> >
> >--
> >Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >--
> >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> >
> >Gene,
>
> What are you trying to accomplish? What you are saying sounds overly
> complex, and convoluted.  You shouldn't have to be messing with sector
> sizes, etc. The sdc media should be formatted to Fat16, and the image
> files just copied over like a regular file...  There are os9 images
> available.
>
> Let me know what you are trying to accomplish, perhaps I can help.
>
> I boot my system from floppy, and have a couple of scsi disks attached
> with partitions, able to talk to the sdc, and drive wire along with
> the regular floppies, and the 6 scsi partitions.
>
> Any how
>
> Take care,
> Tim
>
Couldn't stand the suspense so I dug out the 2nd card and made 
a /media/dos directory, then had to change its perms to 0766. Then 
mounted it "mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /media/dos" worked. Fired up a root 
session of mc and copied SETUP.DSK to /media/dos and it immediately 
showed up in the right panel.  quit mc, sudo eject /media/dos. LED on 
card reader went out. Pulled it, went down and restarted the washer so 
my tidy whitie's got more rinsing to get the soap out, and then followed 
the above to update both the firmware and sdc dos to 1.6. Then I shut it 
down and swapped back to the original card which is supposed to be 
loaded.

But no idea whats there. should there not be a dir like command that 
reads and the whole content of all the .dsk images on that sd card?

drive ENTER shows
0 ===== 0
1 ===== 1
2 dw    2
2 dw	3

but I was not of course schmardt enough to have drivewire 4.3.4 running 
here before I went down to the coco3.

And it now sounds like we've a python based competitor to DW. But I've 
not looked at it yet. Has anyone else, and if, how does it compare?

Not that it would do much good, everything I can mount via the dw gui is 
nitros9, no DEB images here.

can one do a "dir drive 0" etc to get the contents of drive 0 for 
instance, incrementing the drive number 0-255 I assume?

Now I need to see about some decent sleep, I didn't get much last night, 
leg cramps. I don't recommend getting old, not even the AARP propaganda 
about these being the golden years helps. But the alternative is dying 
young and thats no fun either.

Take care all;

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>