[Coco] More hard drive trouble!

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 14:51:33 EDT 2006


It has been my experience that the hard drive/descriptor will rarely work 
unless it is loaded in the OS9Boot.
YMMV. I suggest you try that, and see if it works there.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leon Howell" <puritan_2076 at yahoo.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:30 AM
Subject: [Coco] More hard drive trouble!


>I merged the /h0 descriptor and the driver, loaded the new file, and
> inized /h0. everything worked. Then I tried to do something - Anything -
> with /h0 and the computer locked up! format, chd, dir, etc., all do the 
> same
> thing. mdir says it's there, dmode lists its parameters, amd it works fine
> under rgb-dos, so I know it's not the hard drive. Am I missing a module? 
> Is it
> the tcc driver? I tried it with and without the tcc_512.dr, (I heard most 
> hard
> drives were 512 bytes per sector) and nothing happened. I'll try it with 
> the
> other tcc's, but I would at least expect the drive light to blink. It 
> doesn't
> even do that!
>
> HELP!
>
>
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