[Coco] SuperIDE and Superdriver rock , but...

[Mark Marlette]

At 9/15/2004 09:22 PM -0400, you wrote:

Ben,

EPROM will work but FLASH is better. Shouldn't need to the floppy only to 
copy files from it. I hardly ever switch it....

As far as the sequence. ?? Not sure what values you placed in the WIZARD 
program. Hopefully you made all your boots as the READ.me file in startup 
advises you to do. Otherwise you might be in the land of no 
return.....Actually you can get back but it will take you sometime. Can set 
a drive up in under 30 minutes. I can tell you that when I was setting up 
SuperDriver and the new NitrOS-9 distribution it took me a day to set it 
all up. I do this ALL the time and it is not something that is real easy. 
You must understand the OS and how it is put together.

So do you have the three floppies built before you started to change the 
systems configuration?

Mark


> > I see that you have a 256MB CF....To get full use of this
> > HDB-DOS's partition will have to change. HDB-DOS works from
> > the top of the drive down and NitrOS-9 works from the bottom
> > up. Your invoice shows all the numbers that were used during
> > the process. Run IDEprobe that will tell you how many sectors
> > you have on your CF available. Then you can run WIZARD and
> > make a floppy loadable version to TEST it to make sure it is
> > working. Once it is all working then run"FLASH and answer the
> > questions and then the filename is EPROM.DOS that WIZARD
> > creates to be loaded in an EPROM or FLASH. About 10 seconds
> > and the part will be FLASH'd. If you want FLASH in another
> > BANK like 1,2 or 3. Leave 0 alone till you are converted over.....
>
>I did run IDEProbe and the wizard, the loadm'ed the new HDB-DOS.
>That works without any problems. I was able to format all the
>virtual drives (0 to 255), and I copied the HDB-DOS disk to the
>virtual disk 0.  The autoexec.bad executed when I exec'ed the
>HDB-DOS.  What I didn't do is FLASH the new HDB-DOS. Could
>this be why Nitros9 had a problem with the compact flash?
>I wouldn't think so, but I did skip a few readme files and
>whatnot (heck, I always thought that instructions were for
>the weak of heart )
>
>I've got an eprom programmer, and I'm planning to replace
>the DOS in my floppy controller with HDB-DOS. This
>way, I wont have to play with the slot selector on the MPI.
>
> >
> > You are in the advanced area of HDB-DOS and NitrOS-9. We will
> > be having seminars on this at the next fest. Again with power
> > come complexity.......
>If it were'nt for the 12 hours drive :(
>
> >
> > This is Boisy's area of support but I'm sure he is on the
> > edge of Ivan right now......
>Yeah, I hope Boisy and his family are OK.
>
>Thanks!
>-Ben
>
>
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