[Coco] apparently an incomplete errmsg file

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we need an ascii art of all modules dependencies and document it on sourceforge would that be hard?

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On 2012-10-16, at 7:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Take this with a grain of salt as it's been a while...also i'm trying
> to use some ascii art so fixed width will make this look
> normal-er-ishy.
> 
> I think you'll have this structure:
> 
>        dw3
>      /  |  \
>     /   |   \
> rbdw3 scdwp scdwn
> |       |     |
> /xX..   /p    /nX..
> 
> scdwp and scdwn are SCF, rbdw3 is RBF.  All need to talk to dw3 (dw3
> does the actual I/O whether to bitbanger, Becker/Boisy interface, or
> other).
> 
> HTH
> -Aaron
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 16 October 2012 19:45:54 Aaron Wolfe did opine:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure how or if DW can fit into the L3 split between rbf and
>>> scf because it is both.
>>> The RBF stuff is the drives of course, and the SCF is the virtual
>>> channels, printer, etc.
>>> Both use a common module for the serial I/O though.. so maybe it has
>>> to be loaded into
>>> both maps, scf and rbf?  Not sure how that works out.
>>> 
>> Thats an idea, but that modules name?  The problem then might be in keeping
>> the two copies in 'synch' for the traffic they generate?
>> 
>> I'll try first, moving ALL the dw driver stuff into normal memory.  That
>> way, ioman won't be saddled with trying to figure out which driver to send
>> the request to.
>> 
>> Back later with results since I have to do all this at the coco's keyboard
>> due to needing to reboot to a dw less boot in order to format the disk.
>> 
>> Thanks Aaron.
>> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 16 October 2012 19:12:23 Gene Heskett did opine:
>>>>> Greetings everybody running nitros9;
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm trying to put together a boot floppy for nitros9 level 3.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can get it to go so far as displaying the module list on the boot
>>>>> screen, but it only gets as far as the i2xto*]
>>>>> 
>>>>> AIUI, that ] is the error code, and is ascii 93.  Unforch, my errmsg
>>>>> file does not define an error 93, so it would have to be a recent
>>>>> addition.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anybody have a clue what the heck an error 93 actually is?
>>>> 
>>>> Doh!  Add $80, get 221, module not found.  Now, if we just had a clue
>>>> WHAT module wasn't found.  Sigh.  That boot contains every module
>>>> that a working right now level2 with dw boot contains, just
>>>> re-arranged to fit the level3 idea of Alan DeKok's layout.
>>>> 
>>>> I am wondering if, despite his putting all the scf descriptors into
>>>> normal memory, the dw related stuff needs to be in the scf memory.
>>>> Next test I guess...
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers, Gene
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers, Gene
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