[Coco] Disto Super Controller & OS-9

[t.fadden at cox.net]

I always thought I had a Disto Super II controller, but I only have one 
rom socket in it. Does yours have more than one socket? I don't have any 
problems with the Disto controllers I have.  They both have 4in1 cards 
on them also.  I have used them with stock disk roms, and also 
HDB-Dos/drivewire roms, and they work as expected.  Looks like some OS-9 
drivers are poking around at the wrong addresses?



Tim


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:10 PM , Roger Taylor wrote:

> 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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