[Coco] cobbler'd disks

mike delyea mdelyea at gmail.com
Tue May 15 16:06:30 EDT 2007


/dd is /d0.  ummm, where's the TPI setting?

On 5/15/07, Stephen Castello <zootzoot at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> If you're using /dd, is it pointing to the drive with the CMDS with
> grfdrv & shell?  Also check the TPI setting.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:05:37 -0400, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com>
> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:
>
> >dmode shows mgr=RBF ddr=rb1773 cyl=0028 and sid=02 in NitrOS-9 and in
> OS-9
> >its the same except for CC3disk.  sysgo is in the root of the NitrOS-9
> disk
> >but I wasn't aware I needed anything else on the OS-9 disk other than
> >os9boot in the root and grfdrv and shell in CMDS.  I am able to make a 40
> >track SINGLE sided boot disk, but whenever I try to make a 40 track DS
> disk
> >it won't boot.  Any more suggestions?
> >
> >On 5/14/07, Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> mike delyea wrote:
> >> > This applies to OS-9 and NitrOS-9 - when I cobbler a 40 track
> >> double-sided
> >> > disk it won't boot.  I have placed grfdrv and shell on the newly
> >> cobblered
> >> > disk.  I have no problems formatting, writing and reading DS40 disks.
> >> >
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> >> What does dmode show for the descriptor of the drive you are using? If
> >> your kernel does not include sysgo or cc3go (depending on what system
> >> you are using) is the file in the root directory of the disk from which
> >> you are trying to boot?
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