[Coco] System gen problem - SOLVED!!

[Aaron Wolfe]

Ok, thanks for taking time to do some testing and very glad you found
a solution.  I think then we have all the issues sorted out, please do
let me know if anything else turns up.

To summarize, the latest DW drivers work equally well with DW3 or DW4
servers.. *however* they do not work well with older NitrOS-9
versions, even some that report version 3.2.9.  To use the latest
drivers, you can build NitrOS-9 from CVS or you can use *both* the
drivers and the NitrOS-9 from the disks I've put up on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/files/

I hope this an acceptable situation (not that I can do much about it
:).  I think the only scenario that would present trouble is if
someone tries to use the new drivers with old NitrOS-9, hopefully this
won't happen too often.

thanks for having patience and testing things (everyone).  I am
watching evilbay for a floppy drive or HD controller so I can do
better diagnostics here.

-Aaron


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Robert Gault <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:
> Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> As I sit here pondering, I had some thoughts and questions..
>>
>> Are you using the exact disks I put on the sourceforge site, i.e.
>> booting from DriveWire?  Or are you taking the drivers and making your
>> own disk, to boot from some other hardware?
>
> I was making my own boot disk using your rbdw3.dr and dw3.sb from the
> NitrOS-9 Modules/RBF directory. I boot from my scsi hard drive which has a
> Disk Basic disk section hosting an OS-9 boot disk.
>
>>
>> If you're making your own disk, are you putting the drivers on a disk
>> with old NitrOS9, or are you also using the version of NitrOS-9 from
>> the disks I made (or from recent CVS)?
>> What is the version number?
>
> That appears to have been the problem. I was using your new drivers with my
> current version of NitrOS-9, but it was a 3.2.9 version. I don't know which
> cvs revision and can't tell at this time as the source code is now current.
>
> However, using your disk to create a new boot disk but adding my drivers for
> a scsi hard disk system, Drivewire now works. So, there was some subtle
> difference in the NitrOS-9 versions that prevented changing just the rbdw3
> and dw3 from being successful.
>
>>
>> Could you describe the other drivers used in your system, or post a
>> bootlist?  I wonder if you and Steven have some 3rd party hardware in
>> common?
>
> Steve uses different drivers for his hard disk system. But that is not
> relevant. It was the cvs revision number that was critical for me. Steve
> was, I think, originally using what probably were DW4 drivers with a DW3
> server.
>
>>
>> Could you send me the output of the "devs" command from your system?
>>
>
> It is probably not relevant since the problem is solved but here it is.
> Device table at: 5D00
> Name  Port   Driver   Mem   F Manager
> DD   07FF74  Hdisk    5B00   RBF
> H0   07FF74  Hdisk    5B00   RBF
> H2   07FF74  Hdisk    5B00   RBF
> vh0  07FF74  vdisk    4A00   RBF
> vh1  07FF74  vdisk    4A00   RBF
> Term 07FFA0  VTIO     5A00   SCF
> X0   070000  rbdw3    5000   RBF
>
>> If you have time to think about this and help troubleshoot, great,
>> otherwise I'm sure this will sort itself out eventually as things tend
>> to do :)
>>
>> -Aaron
>
> To summarize, the system now works using your disk to create the new boot
> disk. I did have to add my own scsi drivers.
>
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