[Coco] Glenside IDE booting problems

[Little John]

I was wondering if the OS-9 L2 CC3HDisk supports the Glenside Interface? I 
don't know a lot about OS-9 - I use Nitros9 frequently. Anyway, I was just 
thinking that CC3HDisk was likely intended for Tandy's crappy Hard Disk 
Interface which uses a Tandy "primary" drive (MFM I think). Wouldn't it have 
to be patched to use the Glenside interface? I could be completely off 
here - I just thought I'd ask :)
-JohnT-
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Glenside IDE booting problems


> Don Johnson wrote:
>>
>
>> Okay, so this is good stuff, and useful as well.  I ran the ident command 
>> as you suggested and compared it to my other system disks that I created 
>> that work, but without the hard disk drivers and descriptors.  The lists 
>> were the same except for the CC3HDisk and H0 modules existing in the 
>> non-working System Disk, and not there on the working System Disks.  From 
>> other responses I realized that the DD module was not there before 
>> because I did not add it during the Config process, so I went back and 
>> did the same steps over again.  Here is the list of modules in the newly 
>> created OS9Boot file (that still does not work so for sanity sake at 
>> least I'm consistent).
>>
>> 17 $C0 $47B370 . OS9p2
>> 12 $C1 $FD1FEA . IOMan
>> 67 $C0 $0B2322 . Init
>>    5 $11 $1006FE . CC3Go
>>    9 $C1 $D28AFD . Clock
>> 28 $D1 $EFBE13 . RBF
>>    5 $E1 $02BF2A . CC3HDisk
>> 82 $F1 $0C9F6C . H0
>>    9 $E1 $759161 . CC3Disk
>> 82 $F1 $FC1918 . D0
>> 82 $F1 $9F46Ca . D1
>> 82 $F1 $E6B118 . DD
>
> OK, while I agree that a switch to NitrOS-9 is advisable, here is what you 
> can start with for testing purposes. Do not place cc3hdisk and H0 after 
> RBF. Use the exact order of modules found in your most recent working 
> OS9Boot list with cc3hdisk and h0 AT THE END. This will avoid the "boot 
> order bug" that Gene referred to. Even if there might be a problem with 
> the location of cc3hdisk and h0, you should at least be able to boot from 
> the floppy without hard drive access.
>
> To rephrase, you must do this enhancement step by step so that only one 
> thing is changed at a time or you will never discover the location of the 
> actual problem. So, your new boot disk must be identical to the latest 
> working boot disk but with cc3hdisk and H0 at the end of OS9Boot.
> Tell us if you can get at least this far and boot OS-9.
>
> It will be crucial that your H0 descriptor match the capabilities of your 
> hard drive. If the descriptor is wrong, you will never get the hard drive 
> to work. What utilities are provided with the Glenside package to read the 
> hard drive capabilities and create a custom descriptor?
>
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