[Coco] Bad Driver Combination?
K. Pruitt
pruittk at adelphia.net
Sat Mar 10 13:47:08 EST 2012
When I make a NitrOS9 boot disk using the no-halt driver for the Disto Super
Controller II (rb1773_scii_ff74.dr) and the smartwatch driver (clock2_smart)
together, the Coco 3 will crash instantly when the system tries to access
the clock chip.
Anyone else had this experience and is there a solution (other than not
using the smart watch driver, which is the solution I am currently using)?
Also, when I use the getclk utility to get the date/time from the chip,
date -t reports the date as 1912. This is confusing to me because as far as
I know the watch chip doesn't hold the century but rather only holds the
year, and getclk doesn't seem to be passing a "19" to F$Time - at least not
as far as I can tell from a disassembly of getclk. Where is this 19 coming
from? Does NitrOS9 default to 19 in the absence of a century digit? Does
the NitrOS9 F$Time system call use the same 6 digit scheme as the OS-9
version or does it actually have space for a century digit? I'm using Y2K
updated modules in OS-9 so there it is not an issue, but under NitrOS9 that
19 always shows up.
Thanks for any info you might pass on.
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