[Coco] Glenside IDE Controller Question...

[Randy Just]

I am trying to follow the steps below.  Where is makedesc located?  I couldn't
find it in the /CMDS directory.

Thanks!



>Once you have a standard floppy-only NitrOS boot, the only other
>software you'll need is the Glenside drivers and utilities, BASIC-09,
>and a good text editor.
>
>Run detect_ide.  Think about what it tells you.  How many partitions
>are you going to create?  As I said before, 1-sector clusters are
>good.  NitrOS can handle bigger clusters, but some of the old OS-9
>software can cause problems because they all assume 1-sector
>clusters.  Is the drive LBA compatible?  There's a bug in makedesc
>concerning CHS partitions.  It's documented with the software on my
>site and rtsi and maltedmedia but I didn't *fix* it in those files.
>
>There are two versions of the driver, one supports 5 partitions and
>the other supports 11.  Choose which driver you will use.  I've had
>much better luck with the drivers which have the zero-sector bug
>fixed.
>
>Then run makedesc.  Something else not mentioned in the Glenside docs
>is that device descriptor names are 3 chars. max.  Regular OS-9 naming
>convention for hard drives is H0, H1, etc.
>
>When you're done with makedesc you should have the device descriptors
>saved on your disk as h0.dd or whatever.  Copy the descriptors into
>NITROS9/6809LII/MODULES/RBF.  Copy the proper driver into the same
>directory.  Note the file names.
>
>In NITROS9/6809LII/BOOTLISTS, make a copy of standard.bl.  Call it
>original.bl or whatever.  Edit standard.bl.  In the RBF section, add
>the glenside driver and the descriptors.
>
>In ...6809LII/BOOTSCRIPTS, run the "mb" script to make a new bootdisk.
>When that's done, use dsave to copy the files on disk 1 to your new
>boot(use help to check the syntax of dsave, it has changed from the
>original).  Add the glenside utilities.
>
>Reboot with your new boot disk.  If the gods are pleased it'll boot
>and you can lformat /h0.
>
>No, this isn't the quickest or easiest way to make a new boot disk,
>perhaps, but it's the way with the most control and the most
>educational.  Once you understand all of this, then you can play with
>ezgen or whatever.
>
>The last, and perhaps fussiest, step.  When you've copied stuff onto
>/h0 and you're confident everything's working, you can make a new DD
>descriptor.  Either use makedesc and be very careful to give it the
>same parameters as H0, or edit a copy of your H0.dd with ded, changing
>the name to DD (make sure the 0'th bit of the second "D" is set).
>Make a new bootdisk, replacing dd_ds40 with your new dd_ide.  If you
>can get this to work, it's the next best thing to having a IDE aware
>boot ROM. When you boot NitrOS, it will load os9boot and cmds/grfdrv
>off the floppy, then switch to the ide drive for everything else.
>
>Willard
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>
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