[Coco] Q regarding CDF/ic1 problem

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Wed May 29 03:43:36 EDT 2013


One other thing I'll add:

This Coco3 has a TRIAD 512K upgrade. I don't know if it's relevant.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher R. Hawks" <chawks at dls.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Q regarding CDF/ic1 problem


> 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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