[Coco] Nitros9 boot disk
rietveld rietveld
rietveldh at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 7 16:02:54 EDT 2018
I am not home right now. As soon as I get home I will list them off. Thank u for your help. I'm excited to get it setup as my daily driver coco it has a much smaller footprint on my desk than the other 2mb coco3 setup I am running now
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Original Message
From: David Ladd
Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2018 3:59 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Nitros9 boot disk
Rietveld,
Ok so 80 track disk image is good.
What is the module list you are using in the OS9Boot file??????????
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On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 2:54 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> My image is 80 track
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
> Original Message
> From: David Ladd
> Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2018 3:11 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Nitros9 boot disk
>
>
> Tim,
>
> You can use the CoCoSDC booting off of standard floppy disk images without
> needing to replace the rb1773 driver as long as the disk image doesn't go
> over 80 tracks double sided.
>
> The only thing you have to be careful of is if you mix the drivers when
> booting.
>
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>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > You also need sdc drivers on the boot image. Once it loads the kernel, it
> > won't find the SDC card.
> >
> > On 4/7/2018 10:26 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> >
> >> Just floppy drivers I thought that the SDC emulated the floppy
> >> controller so I didn't think that it used different drivers
> >>
> >> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
> >> Original Message
> >> From: David Ladd
> >> Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2018 1:24 PM
> >> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> >> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] Nitros9 boot disk
> >>
> >>
> >> Rietveld,
> >>
> >> As far as your boot disk goes what is the module list for the OS9Boot
> >> file?
> >> Is it configured for Floppy drivers or is it configured for CoCoSDC
> >> drivers? Or do you have both sets of drivers?
> >>
> >> The reason I ask these questions are as follows:
> >> CoCoSDC when booting off of a floppy disk that is setup as a real floppy
> >> disk only will boot fine, but if you try to boot a floppy disk image
> that
> >> has both real floppy disk drivers and CoCoSDC drivers when the CoCoSDC
> >> drivers kick in the CoCoSDC is put into HDD mode. Thus the real floppy
> >> disk drivers become unusable with the CoCoSDC as the floppy emulation
> has
> >> been turned off. So this is something to be aware of.
> >>
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> |
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> |
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> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 11:48 AM, rietveld rietveld <
> rietveldh at hotmail.com
> >> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Quick question for the Nitros9 guys
> >>>
> >>> I Boot up Nitros9 using a 51/4 system disk configured to the hardware
> >>> This works perfectly. I copied the system disk to the SDC as NITROS9.
> >>> DSK.
> >>> Then connected the SDC and disto board to the coco BUS with a 'Y'
> cable.
> >>> When I launch the disk image using 'DOS' it will only boot halfway then
> >>> fail
> >>>
> >>> Is it because I am using a 'y' cable and the SDC pak? The same
> >>> setup(with
> >>> the Y cable) will still boot using the 5 1/4 disk and drive?
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
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