[Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)

Vern Burke vburke at skow.net
Sun Aug 28 15:41:58 EDT 2005


James:
    TCC512 is the hard disk driver.

Vern


jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> Pardon my asking as I have kind of sat by and watched all this go 
> by as an interested obsever.
> 
> Looking at the bootlist, would you not need a CC3HDISK driver and 
> device descriptors loaded at bootup to be able to access a hard disk 
> on boot? 
> 
> May be I don't see it because it is incorporated in another driver?
> 
> 
> james
> On 28 Aug 2005 at 15:31, Vern Burke wrote:
> 
> Date sent:      	Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:31:31 -0400
> From:           	Vern Burke <vburke at skow.net>
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>>Here it is:
>>
>>  17 $C0 $47B370 . OS9p2
>>    12 $C1 $FD1FEA . IOMan
>>    67 $C0 $0B398A . Init
>>     9 $C1 $D28AFD . Clock
>>    28 $D1 $EFBE13 . RBF
>>    82 $F1 $6B9092 . hd
>>    82 $F1 $BAFCA3 . dd
>>     2 $E1 $96184F . TCC512
>>     9 $E1 $759161 . CC3Disk
>>    82 $F1 $9B5FBA . D0
>>    82 $F1 $080376 . D1
>>    82 $F1 $6FB52E . fd
>>    13 $D1 $F946CA . SCF
>>    12 $E1 $3CB148 . MODPAK
>>    83 $F1 $F622ED . T3
>>    12 $E1 $C1EA10 . ACIAPAK
>>    82 $F1 $9E655D . T2
>>     9 $E1 $915957 . SIO
>>    83 $F1 $ECEB09 . T1
>>    16 $E1 $F737C2 . CC3IO
>>    14 $C1 $6E4441 . GrfInt
>>    83 $F1 $EC1C40 . Term
>>    83 $F1 $75DEBB . W
>>    83 $F1 $7CD180 . W1
>>    83 $F1 $8EE4C6 . W2
>>    83 $F1 $E42902 . W3
>>    83 $F1 $119408 . W4
>>    83 $F1 $C109F3 . W5
>>    83 $F1 $A3C36E . W6
>>    83 $F1 $AC6B4B . W7
>>     4 $D1 $AD6718 . PipeMan
>>     2 $E1 $5B2B56 . Piper
>>    80 $F1 $CC06AF . Pipe
>>
>>
>>
>>George Ramsower wrote:
>>
>>>Verne
>>>
>>>Can you provide a copy of the results of this?
>>>
>>>Boot with your working disk, chx to /h0/cmds and chd to /h0 first
>>>then insert the the boot disk that is in question. Run this..
>>>
>>>ident -s /d0/os9boot
>>>
>>>Before you send the list, run that command line and make sure you
>>>didn't accidentally leave the original /dd floppy descriptor in your
>>>bootlist.
>>>
>>>George
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
>>>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [Coco] partial
>>>OS9 boot from hard drive (back on topic)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>George:
>>>>   No luck. I even went back and created a virgin copy of the hard 
>>>>drive descriptor as dd, all the descriptors match perfectly. The
>>>>boot still gets to OS9 BOOT, accesses the hard drive, then crashes
>>>>the machine.
>>>>
>>>>Vern
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>George Ramsower wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Vern,
>>>>>
>>>>>I think you would be better off changing a copy of the  /h0 device
>>>>>descriptor to /dd. You already know the /h0 dd works. To set/see
>>>>>the settings on the device descriptor that is in the config
>>>>>directory, use dmode -ddh0.dd.scsi (or whatever the file name is
>>>>>you will be using. The difference is the - and the / Until you get
>>>>>it to work, you can't dmode it in memory, yes?
>>>>>
>>>>>Here's what MY descriptors look like and how they differ..
>>>>>Your descriptor will be VERY different than mine, but when you
>>>>>compare YOUR /h0 and the /dd descriptors, the only differences
>>>>>should be as mine are different from each  other.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>OS9[T2]:dump ddh0.dd.scsi
>>>>>
>>>>>Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F   0 2 4 6 8 A C E
>>>>>----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
>>>>>0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF  .   M.1.!q.].$.'...
>>>>>0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401       
>>>>>t.......g...4.4. 0020  0864 E401 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 6B30    
>>>>> .dd.RBFSCSISYSk0 0030  61                                   a
>>>>>
>>>>>OS9[T2]:dump h0.dd.scsi
>>>>>
>>>>>Addr   0 1  2 3  4 5  6 7  8 9  A B  C D  E F  0 2 4 6 8 A C E
>>>>>----  ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----  ----------------
>>>>>0000  87CD 0031 0021 F189 DD00 2400 27FF 07FF       
>>>>>.M.1.!q.].$.'... 0010  740F 0100 0080 8002 6704 0100 3400 3401    
>>>>>   t.......g...4.4. 0020  0868 B001 5242 C653 4353 4953 59D3 03C5 
>>>>>      .h0.RBFSCSISYS.E 0030  D0
>>>>>
>>>>>I think this is the area that needs work on your system. I also
>>>>>went through the same thing when I wanted to use the hard drive as
>>>>>the default drive. However, I got lucky and got the descriptor
>>>>>right the first time. My problem was finding out what files had to
>>>>>be on the floppy and on the hard drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>The driver is working, the /h0 is working, but the /dd is not. You
>>>>>have all the files where they need to be and this is the only
>>>>>problem that I can see.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Vern Burke" <vburke at skow.net>
>>>>>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
>>>>><coco at maltedmedia.com> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:26 AM
>>>>>Subject: Re: [Coco] partial OS9 boot from hard drive (back on
>>>>>topic)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Robert:
>>>>>>   These are the exact same descriptors that work fine with /dd
>>>>>>   as 
>>>>>>the floppy. I changed the names by doing a rename with ezgen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Vern
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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