[Coco] noswiz doesn't work for me...

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 09:56:01 EST 2012


Hmm... CoCoBoot's IDE driver is slow, but not 5 mintues slow!  I bet
xroar is returning a "rdy" bit in the IDE harddrive address, but then
returning "bsy" bit... thus confusing CoCoBoot into thinking theres a
glenside/superIDE  drive (but there really isn't)  I don't now much
about Xroar, but I'll download that emulator, test things out and get
back to you.

Its possible to "escape" out of the your problem by holding any key
down during boot.. this might get you started, but would suck for
daily operation.. its best off for me to try to "fix" the IDE driver.

Does Xroar support the Glenside interface ?

Brett

On 2/13/12, Christopher Hawks <chawks at dls.net> wrote:
> Willard Goosey said the following on 02/12/2012 07:46 PM:
>> 512K CoCo3, MPI, glenside IDE (glenside driver) , drivewire4 server,
>> loads hdbdos off floppy, trying to boot cocoboot via drivewire,
>> boot.dsk is drivewire drive 0
>>
>> Gives me:
>> CoCoBoot 0.50a
>> RAM: -
>> ROM: -
>> HDB: -
>> DW: -
>> FD: -
>>   ok
>>
>>
>> Acts the same with or without MPI+IDE
>> ????
>>
>> Willard
>
> Doesn't work for me either.
>
> xroar boot.dsk gives:
>
> CoCoBoot 0.50a
> RAM: -
> ROM: -
> HDB:
>
> and HANGS (true, I only waited 5 minutes...)
> ROMs are Basic 1.3, Extended 1.1, and Disk 1.1 (NO HDB or Drivewire).
>
> Anything else with xroar (even FahrFall!!!) works fine.
>
>
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