[Coco] NitrOS9 L1 (6809) + SDC - DRIVE OFF issues...

[Barry Nelson]

Suggestion, boot NitrOS9 with the SDC driver, and use that OS to perform your copying. Also please be aware that stock OS9 level 1 or level 2 does NOT like a directory or a file to start with a number, so it considers /d0/nitros9/6809l2 or /d0/nitros9/6809l1 to be invalid folders. NitrOS9 handles this fine, however.

> Rogelio Perea os9dude at gmail.com 
> Thu Feb 18 11:36:03 EST 2016
> 
> On Thu Feb 18 2016, Darren A wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Anyone been able to boot OS9 L1 form an SDC and keep the ability to
> > access
> > > a real floppy?
> > >
> >
> >
> > Rogelio, the DRIVE n,OFF command in SDC-DOS allows access to real floppy
> > drives in a system with an MPI, but only when using SDC-DOS. It's a
> > software feature, not a setting in the SDC hardware.
> >
> > I don't know if OS9 has the ability to support a system with more than one
> > floppy controller in an MPI, but that is essentially what is needed if
> > you're not using the SDC driver written for NitrOS9.
> 
> 
>  Ah! completely missed taking the SDC as another drive controller... now I
> see where my woes are coming from.
> 
> Don't think OS9 can pull that double disk controller scenario, not right
> out of the box at least.
> 
> Thanks Darren!
> 
> 
> -- RP