[Coco] Disto Super Controller & OS-9

[Roger Taylor]

I'm having a devil of a time trying to boot into anything OS-9 
related, even from original floppies.

I just tried to boot a Deskmate boot disk, but my SC ROM socket 4 was 
switched in and started.  I know this because I have the bitbanger 
copy of CoCoNet in socket 4, and it started up right about the time 
the OS-9 title screen should have appeared.  I initially got the 
expected OS-9 BOOT message followed by track jumping for a bit, then 
crashola.  Sometimes OS-9 doesn't get far before it crashes.  I get 
video sparklies or random garbage, the motor relay comes on, etc. 
(just in case somebody asks me the silly question of How is it crashing?).  :)

Is this a known problem?  I've tried my 3.5" drive and 5.25" drive, 
so I think it's the controller or it's addressing scheme.  I might 
have to burn a clone of Disk BASIC to put in socket 4 if somehow the 
sockets are being switched between by mistake or hardware 
glitch.  Very odd this is.


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Roger Taylor

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