[Coco] System gen problem - SOLVED!!

[Steven Hirsch]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>> Boisy mentioned that he recalled fixing a bug where the DW drivers became
>> adversely affected by others in the image.  I suspect this fix came at a
>> point sometime after the Cloud9 image was assembled and simply never got
>> retro-fitted.
>>
>> Hopefully this sets the record straight.
>>
>
> I understand the trouble the old (disk images from cloud9 site)
> drivers caused.  They were on the cloud9 site for quite some time. I
> am surprised this is the first time this issue came up (or maybe it
> has been a problem for some that never got resolved).

I think it was a combination of things.  Probably a lot of users found the 
ability to boot over DW to be a comfortable default and may simply have 
continued to use those boot images "as is".

The only other person I heard from who rebuilt a system to include a hard 
drive was Robert Gault, and he appears to have been using drivers built 
from the CVS nitros9 sources.

It's quite likely that the issue has been lurking all along.  Of course, 
given my luck in breaking things, I may have caused a fork in the 
space-time continuum wherein they became bad in retrospect :-).

> I believe that so long as everyone uses the drivers/bootdisks/etc from
> the DriveWire sourceforge site:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/files/ , that this
> problem will not happen again.
>
> Once again, if anyone does have problems using these drivers, with
> either the included NitrOS-9 or NitrOS-9 from current CVS, please let
> me know.  Feel free to send a private email if you prefer.  I think it
> is important to keep these disks "stable" so I will not be updating
> them unless Boisy tells me to or some drastic change occurs.  I'll do
> whatever I can to ensure they remain a source of a known good
> combination of OS and driver if they do change.

Sure, I intend to give them a thrashing as time permits (hopefully this 
weekend).  Just hope I can figure out how to create a system diskette 
image from the CVS sources.  For some reason, this eluded me the last time 
I tried...

Steve


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