[Coco] Q regarding CDF/ic1 problem

Christopher R. Hawks chawks at dls.net
Mon May 27 21:20:12 EDT 2013


On Tue, 28 May 2013 07:08:16 +1000
"Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> thanks for your response.
> 
> I noticed that the manual makes no mention of including the CDF
> driver and descriptor inot the OS9Boot file, but just tells the user
> to load the driver into memory. This seems odd to me, but hey, maybe
> it's different in some way.

Bob:

	I can't duplicate the problem. Still works fine here, even with
the newest NitrOS9. I'll keep looking. Any more details??

	RE: loading the modules. CDF was originally written for OS9-68K.
With plenty of RAM, loading the modules was the simplest way. I never
updated the manual to include building a bootfile.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Marlette" <mmarlette at frontiernet.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Q regarding CDF/ic1 problem
> 
> 
> > Bob,
> >
> > I have contacted Chris at HawkSoft as this is his product. I have
> > used CDF in the past with no problems. Guessing it is a NitrOS-9
> > issue.
> >
> >
> > ????
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark
> > http://www.cloud9tech.com
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:59 PM
> > Subject: [Coco] Q regarding CDF/ic1 problem
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been asked to investigate a problem that another Aussie (& 
> > dalby-ite) is having with his Super IDE and the CDF from Chris
> > Hawks.
> >
> > The SuperIDE has a CF card, which can be accesed properly using /DD.
> >
> > The CDROM drive can be accessed properly using the /IC1 which was
> > included in the OS9Boot file. The CDROM drive is slave. I assume
> > that the CF is the master.
> >
> > After accessing the CDROM, he can no longer access the CF card
> > using /DD. He gets ERROR 253 - NON-SHARABLE DEVICE BUSY. It
> > requires a re-boot to re-enable reads of the CF card.
> >
> > Has anyone here come across this problem?
> >
> > Regards, Bob Devries
> > Dalby, QLD, Australia
> >
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Christopher R. Hawks
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