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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 22 October 2014 18:46:04 Tormod Volden did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 October 2014 16:28:30 Tormod Volden did opine
> > 
> >> I am confused to what you are trying to do. Is your posted floppy
> >> format issue something to do with level3? The rest of the world is
> >> using level 1 or 2 as far as I know. Try to solve one thing at a
> >> time, would be my suggestion.
> > 
> > I rebooted it again after coming home from the Dr's, this for about
> > the 20th time in the last 2 days, and it formatted the disk as
> > expected. Fluke I can't repeat? Damnedifiknow.
> > 
> > If I can make a floppy boot disk that works with these newer, smaller
> > drivers, then I will make a floppy to backup to the default HD boot
> > vdisk.
> > 
> > But I am still running down drivers & descriptors for stuff that is
> > not available in the 3.3.0 I just built.  I finally did find r0.dd,
> > to work with myram.dr, but had to go back to a disk I'd taken apart
> > with vfy years ago to find that.  That disk was, is, about 22 years
> > old.  I probably have it 4 or 5 other places on my hd, but stuff is
> > hard to find w/o a 2 pane file manager.  Yeah, I'd spoiled by mc on
> > linux. :)
> 
> It's there: level2/coco3_6309/modules/mr0.dd
> mr0.dd goes with myram (the ram disk you wrote)
> r0.dd goes with rammer (another ram disk implementation)
> Their format is slightly different.

Ahh, no wonder it looked familiar when I did a dmode -mr0.dd.
> 
> >> > My default hd boot is from $80/128, and bootlink has me set for
> >> > that atm. I don't want to ruin what I have until I know for a
> >> > fact that it works because I'd have to restart from a floppy
> >> > scratch.  That is years back up the log obviously.
> >> > 
> >> > I'll study the bailout message & see if I can figure out where it
> >> > came from:
> >> > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `defsfile.asm', needed by
> >> > `defsfile'. Stop.
> >> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/defs'
> >> > make[3]: Entering directory `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/sys'
> >> > make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> >> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/sys'
> >> > make[3]: Entering directory
> >> > `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/bootfiles' make[3]: Nothing to be
> >> > done for `all'.
> >> > make[3]: Leaving directory
> >> > `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/bootfiles' rm -f
> >> > nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk
> >> > os9 format -e -t40 -ds -dd -q nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk -
> >> > n"NitrOS-9/6309 Level 3 Disk 1"
> >> > os9 gen nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk -b=bootfiles/bootfile_40d
> >> > - t=bootfiles/kernel_1773
> >> > Boot track written!
> >> > Bootfile Linked!  LSN: 12, size: 30911
> >> > os9 makdir nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk,CMDS
> >> > os9 makdir nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk,SYS
> >> > os9 makdir nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk,DEFS
> >> > os9 copy -o=0 modules/sysgo_dd
> >> > nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk,sysgo os9 attr -q -pe -npw -pr
> >> > -e -w -r
> >> > nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk,sysgo cd cmds; os9 copy -o=0
> >> > make[2]: Entering directory
> >> > `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/cmds' shell utilpak1 asm attr
> >> > backup binex build cmp cobbler copy cputype date dcheck debug ded
> >> > deiniz del deldir devs dir dirsort disasm display dmem dmode
> >> > dsave dump echo edit error exbin format free grfdrv help ident
> >> > iniz irqs link list load login makdir mdir megaread merge mfree
> >> > mmap modpatch montype mpi os9gen padrom park pmap proc procs
> >> > prompt pwd pxd reboot rename save setime shell_21 sleep smap
> >> > sfree tee tmode touch tsmon tuneport unlink verify wcreate xmode
> >> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309/cmds'
> >> > ../nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk,CMDS
> >> > /bin/sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> >> > make[2]: *** [nos96309l3v030300coco3_40d_1.dsk] Error 2
> >> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/nitros9/level3/coco3_6309'
> >> > make[1]: *** [dsk] Error 2
> >> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/nitros9/level3'
> >> > make: *** [dsk] Error 2
> >> 
> >> Probably something in the makefile you made. Maybe you should start
> >> with what I suggested in a previous mail.
> > 
> > That _is_ the output of what you suggested.  It destroyed everything
> > I had done.  The first thing I have to do is fix the defsfiles,
> > level 3's
> 
> No, running make doesn't change any source files, so that did not
> destroy your work. You messed that up when changing branches and
> "resolving" the conflicts. If you have uncommitted changes, it is best
> to save them somewhere before experimenting with mercurial.
> 
> And no, the above errors are not what results of doing what I
> suggested on a clean nitros9 repo.

As I found out by doing a fresh clone of it without the branch switch.
 
> > makefiles and defsfiles are so old they are still calling them by the
> > microware names!
> > 
> > But what good does it do me to fix it when I haven't the foggiest
> > what my old srcfrg login and passwords were 3 or 5 years back.  So I
> > am locked out from committing such fixes as the makefiles &
> > defsfile's.  That obviously is self defeating.
> 
> Just post the diffs or send patches to me like last time. I will
> review and commit them to the repo.

I just sent you a makefile for the level3 directory.  To replace the 
template, fill in the blanks version that is there now.

Thanks.
 
> Regards,
> Tormod

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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