[Coco] System gen problem - SOLVED!!

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 February 2010, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>>> Boisy mentioned that he recalled fixing a bug where the DW drivers
>>> became adversely affected by others in the image.  I suspect this fix
>>> came at a point sometime after the Cloud9 image was assembled and simply
>>> never got retro-fitted.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this sets the record straight.
>>
>> I understand the trouble the old (disk images from cloud9 site)
>> drivers caused.  They were on the cloud9 site for quite some time. I
>> am surprised this is the first time this issue came up (or maybe it
>> has been a problem for some that never got resolved).
>
>I think it was a combination of things.  Probably a lot of users found the
>ability to boot over DW to be a comfortable default and may simply have
>continued to use those boot images "as is".
>
>The only other person I heard from who rebuilt a system to include a hard
>drive was Robert Gault, and he appears to have been using drivers built
>from the CVS nitros9 sources.
>
>It's quite likely that the issue has been lurking all along.  Of course,
>given my luck in breaking things, I may have caused a fork in the
>space-time continuum wherein they became bad in retrospect :-).
>
>> I believe that so long as everyone uses the drivers/bootdisks/etc from
>> the DriveWire sourceforge site:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/files/ , that this
>> problem will not happen again.
>>
>> Once again, if anyone does have problems using these drivers, with
>> either the included NitrOS-9 or NitrOS-9 from current CVS, please let
>> me know.  Feel free to send a private email if you prefer.  I think it
>> is important to keep these disks "stable" so I will not be updating
>> them unless Boisy tells me to or some drastic change occurs.  I'll do
>> whatever I can to ensure they remain a source of a known good
>> combination of OS and driver if they do change.
>
>Sure, I intend to give them a thrashing as time permits (hopefully this
>weekend).  Just hope I can figure out how to create a system diskette
>image from the CVS sources.  For some reason, this eluded me the last time
>I tried...
>
>Steve
>
Chuckle, I believe you might have a drinking partner in the forked continuum 
bar. ;-)

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