[Coco] NitrOS-9 newbie needs some help (Progress!)

[Robert Gault]

Nickolas Marentes wrote:

>>Boisy wrote.....
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> Ok.  This tells me that there is most likely an issue with the SS.WTrk 
> routine in the rb1773 driver.  It *could* possibly be the format 
> utility.  However, just to be sure Nick, try the following:
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> (1) Boot into NitrOS-9.
> (2) Insert the stock OS-9 Level Two System Master disk in /d1
> (3) At the shell prompt, type: load /d1/cmds/format
> (4) Now put a blank disk in /d1 and attempt to format.  This is using 
> the stock format utility.  If there are still problems, then its' 
> definitely in the driver somewhere.
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>>Nick Replies....
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> Still crashes.
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>>Boisy writes...
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> Here's something additional to try:
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> (1) Boot into NitrOS-9
> (2) Insert a blank disk in /d1
> (3) Type: format /d1 1 '35' :4:
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> This will give an interleave of 4.  The default is 3.  I doubt the 
> interleave is the problem, but it's worth a try to see the result.
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>>Nick replies...
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> Still crashes.
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What is the crash doing? Does the system just freeze up (no return via 
NMI) or does the screen go wild, relays flip, and weird disk I/O start 
(code in memory gets trashed, ?GIME failure?)?