[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday, July 26, 2010 06:15:45 am Chad H did opine:

> Ok, I'm hearing X-Mode or T-Mode for the printer configuration and
> D-Mode for the floppy configuration?  Is this right?
> 
dmode is for storage (rbf) descriptor adjustments, and tmode (already open 
paths)/xmode (to be opened paths) are for serial (scf) devices.

But Bob Devries is also correct in that your version is the original, did 
not have a dmode command because ccdisk was hard coded for SS disks.

You would be better off to take a visit to nitros9.sourceforge.net and 
download the level 1 images available there, as all this is fixed in 
nitros9.  The full link to the front page is:
 <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nitros9/index.php?title=Main_Page>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of James Jones
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:26 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
> 
> On 07/25/2010 10:04 PM, Chad H wrote:
> > Here's the issue I'm working on right now: trying to configure it to
> > take advantage of the printer and floppy drive setup I have attached.
> >  I have a FD-502 with dual 5.25 double-sided 360k drives with a
> > modified RS-DOS
> 
> EPROM
> 
> > that allows the top unit to be drives 0/1 and the bottom 2/3.  How do
> > I configure OS-9 to take advantage of the other sides of the drives,
> > either
> 
> as
> 
> > /d2, /d3, etc. or by making /d0 and /d1 double-sided devices.
> 
> There's a utility out there called dmode that lets you modify RBF device
> descriptor modules (the ones in memory; you'll want to save them out to
> a file). If you don't have that, then you'll have to either create one
> with an assembler or use a program that will let you modify a file
> containing the device descriptors (and update the module CRCs). In
> either case, you will then want to recreate a boot file with the
> modified device descriptors.
> 
> >    Also, a
> > 
> > person on this list was gracious enough to sell me a
> > serial-to-parallel converter that allows me to print to a old HP
> > DeskJet 540 printer rather well.  I've coded some RS-DOS BASIC
> > programs to work properly with it
> 
> (i.e.
> 
> > setting 1200baud and CRLF) but is there a way to set such parameters
> > in OS/9?  If memory serves, the printer is /P device, right?  I've
> > seen a couple of OS-9 applications allow the setting of the baud rate
> > inside the application setup, but not much other settings.   Only way
> > I could get
> 
> these
> 
> > to printt down a page instead of all text on the first line was to run
> > a RS-DOS BASIC initialization program to initialize the printer and
> > then go into the OS-9 apps and print.
> 
> For that you'll use tmode (the program that inspired dmode and its
> name), which modifies SCF flavored device descriptors.
> 
>      James Jones
> 
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