[Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC

[Bill Pierce]

Bob,
I stand corrected :-)
I justglanced at the hd.dd and saw the "dd".
And yes, merging the 2 into one file; "merge bbhdisk.dr hd.dd >BnBdrv" or something of that nature will save memory. Loaded independantly, they each take an 8k block. Merged, they reside in the same 8k block. Once loaded, "iniz /hd". Also, if you're loading a merged shell or merged util pak (with cmds), you may want to eliminate that from the startup while trying to get the BnB setup to work. It will give you more memory.
Personally, like Bob said, I think it's best just to make a new boot. I also have a BnB setup and when I got the system, the original owner forgot to send me the startup disk. I had to make one from scratch. I just started off with a standard Nitros9 drivewire boot disk and added the BnB driver and descriptors (mine has 2 ST-225s) and it booted on first try.
A word of advice, get your data off those drives as quick as possible. Both my BnB drives died not long after I got them going after 10 years of hibernation. Luckilly, I got most of the data off before they did. I was thinking of picking up 2 used ones but I think if I add another HD, I'll go SuperIDE and use one of my old IDE drives. They seem to be a little more stable than the old MFM format drives.

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC


Bill,
I'll have to pull you up on this one.

Philip's descriptor is /hd, not /dd. It should work fine alongside the other 
descriptors.

Other comments regardsing merging the driver and descriptor may help it to 
work, but placing it in the OS9Boot will be the best. However, it is still 
possible for that to fail. I'm working with another user trying to set up a 
working OS9Boot for his SuperIDE with CDF. Currently the boot fails with a 
"W" at the last; which IIRC means ERROR 207 - Memory full.

Regards, Bob Devries

Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC


>
> Phillip,
> First if you've already booted, then you probably already have a "/dd" 
> descriptor in memory. You cannot have 2 "/dd" descriptors in memory at the 
> same time. Just name your HD descriptor "/h0". Once it and the driver are 
> loaded, type "iniz /h0". If you do not get an error, then it should work 
> from this point.
>
> Bill Pierce
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
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>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 3:19 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] NitrOS9 and B&B XT-RTC
>
>
> Here is what I'm trying to do that isn't working….
>
> I've booted from Nitros9 6309 image from DW.
> I've copied the ddmaker and bbhdisk.dr files to /dd/cmds
> I've run ddmaker hd to make a new descriptor for the hard drive using the
> bbhdisk.dr driver.
>
> I then load bbhdisk.dr and load hd.dd
>
> dir /hd just hangs….hitting break will result in everything giving an 
> error 207
> out of memory.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip
>
>
> On Jun 17, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Philip Zeigler <philip at zeiglers.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get my CoCo3 system going after too many years away :)
>>
>> I'm having trouble finding drivers for my B&B XT-RTC so I can see what's 
>> on my
> ST-225 hard drive.
>>
>> I don't need to boot to the hard drive, just be able to access it.
>>
>> My current system is CoCo 3 (6309) 512K with MPI (FDC slot 4, B&B slot 3,
> RS232Pak slot 2 and SuperIDE slot 1).  I have a CF card in the SuperIDE 
> but I'm
> mostly using drivewire.
>>
>>
>> FYI… the ST-225 was my primary hard drive and I did boot to it with 
>> XT-ROM
> 2.4.  It had stock OS9L2 on it.  I'm hoping to grab a lot of my C source 
> files
> from it.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated… I used to be good at this 20 years ago!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Philip Zeigler
>>
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