[Coco] CocoSDC + floppy drives

[Bob Devries]

Hi Darren,

well, I downloaded the NitrOS9 repo, and built the CocoSDC disk image. I 
tried to boot the CocoSDC from that, but the boot fails with error 215 
(*W), which is bad path name.

Should that have worked, or have I misunderstood something?

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 7/01/2015 4:14 PM, Darren A wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Bob Devries wrote:
>
>> Hi all, especially CocoSDC users,
>>
>> I have reset up my Coco3 after my house move.
>> I now have:
>> Coco3 with 1MB
>> Multipak I/F (moded) 26-3124?
>> CocoSDC in slot 3
>> Disto SCII in slot 4
>> MPI switch set to 3
>>
>> Boots just fine, but I can't access the *real* floppies.
>> Should I be replacing the rb1773 and D0, D1 with modules from the NitrOS9
>> repo?
>>
>
>
> A new SDC Driver and Boot Module were uploaded to the NitrOS-9 repository a
> couple of weeks ago. The nightly build disk images have not yet been
> updated to include these changes.
>
> The Init routine in the new driver now scans the MPI slots looking for a
> *real* floppy controller. If it finds one then it makes that the active
> slot so that /d0,  /d1, etc will access real floppy drives.
>
> The slot containing the CoCo SDC is now activated only during I/O calls for
> /sd0 or /sd1.
>
> - Darren
>