[Coco] I am back to not being able to format a floppy, help plz

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

If you have a nitros9 l2 system that can format a floppy without locking 
up, I need to see the smap, vfy -x format, and ident -m rb1773 outputs.

Here, format is whats being built by yesterdays pull and build.

smap shows:
{t2|08}/DD:smap           

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
 #  = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
 0  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 1  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 2  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
 3  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
 4  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ U U U _ U 
 5  U _ _ _ U _ _ U _ _ U U U U U U 
 6  _ _ U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 7  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 8  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 9  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 A  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 B  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 C  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 D  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 E  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U 
 F  U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U . 

 Number of Free Pages:  53
   RAM Free in KBytes:  13

Which should be enough contiguous ram to run format.  Then:
{t2|08}/DD:vfy -x format  
Length of file: $000010C7

Module found at offset $00000000 in this file
Header for    : Format
Header parity : $FE (good)
Module size   : $10C7
Edition       : $19
Ty/La At/Rv   : $11   $80
Program module, 6809 object, Re-enterable, R/O
Exec. off     : $0095
Data Size     : $2B70
Module CRC is : $0ABD19 (good)

Bytes read    : $000010C7

and:
{t2|08}/DD:ident -m rb1773

Header for:  rb1773 
Module size: $0646    #1606
Module CRC:  $91D810 (Good) 
Hdr parity:  $9B 
Exec. off:   $00DB    #219
Data Size:   $00BF    #191
Edition:     $01      #1
Ty/La At/Rv: $E1 $81 
Dev Dvr mod, 6809 obj, re-en, R/O 

I think the floppy driver, rb1773 is a likely candidate.  Format itself, 
using this 2 command line from the mb.l3 script:

format %1 "NitrOS9v329sd2.1 lvl 3 Boot" R
yyy

works flawlessly.  But it is not using rb1773 that I know of.

Formatting a floppy may step the drive 15 to 20 times, but more often once 
or twice and the machine is frozen, 100% of the time.  I thought Robert 
Gould had fixed this quite some time back?

Ideas?

Thanks guys.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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