[Coco] Glenside IDE booting problems

[Willard Goosey]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:20:38PM -0800, Don Johnson wrote:

> I then correct the CRC and header parity with a 'v' command and
> quit.  EZGen saves the work directly to the OS9Boot file.  I reboot
> and I still get the same problem of the booting process failing if
> the hard drive is turned on.

I think you should set IT.TOS ($1D) to be the same as IT.SCT.  

It's a historical thing.
> 
> So, first of all anybody think I used the wrong byte values?
> Second, those cylinder/head/sector numbers were the values from the
> hard drive after I formatted it, but the original (physical) values
> were 8940/15/63 according to the detect_ide.b09 script I ran from
> the Glenside disk, and these new values, the ones I used, where
> listed as the logical current values.  Should the device descriptor
> have the physical or the logical values?
> 
There's a 2-Gig size limit, even with clustering.  Use the logical
values.
> 
> Of course this whole issue of resetting the device descriptor may
> not be relevant anyways because I seem to be able to use the hard
> drive as long as it is not powered up when I boot up.  

That I can't help you with.  It sounds like the 1.0 driver is being
cranky, and you've already gotten further with that version than I
ever did.

As far as that driver goes?  YOU are now the expert! ;-)


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