[Coco] Adding SCBBT and T1 the easiest way?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 December 2014 18:52:46 Kandur did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Back in the day, I used to edit/modify SCF and RBF descriptors.
> Now I haven't the foggiest, how to do it.
> My 5.25" drive can read and write these kind of floppies:
> TYP=20, TRK=0028 and TYP=21, TRK=0050
> Realize the second one is not a standard dmode, but it works
> great and holds twice as much data, then the first one.
> This also allow me to use the backup command
> to duplicate a 3.5" floppy on a 5.25" one.
> I'd like to have a descriptor for the second type,
> so I don't have to change it's dmode after every boot.
> 
> Kandur

After you have dmoded the descriptor to the right stuffs, cd to the 
modules/rbf section of the nitros9 build install, and issue a

 "save my_d2.dd d2"

replacing the 2 with the drives proper address of course.

Then edit your nitros9/bootlists/standard.bl by copying it to my.bl, edit 
to use that descriptor instead of the stock one.  Then do the same thing 
in the scripts directory by copying the mb. you are using to mb.mine, and 
edit the os9gen line in mb.mine so it uses the my.bl you just created.  
Run the new mb.mine, direct it to the drive you usually use for a boot 
drive, and make the updated boot disk.

The bootlist name and the script name are totally arbitrary, so if you 
want to name them after the famous Fudpucker's, from Alice to Zumling, (be 
sure and don't forget Elmer or George) it will still work.

> Saturday, December 6, 2014, 9:14:29 PM, you wrote:
> > I use ezgen quite often and have created literally over a hundred
> > boots with it over the last year alone, and have never had one
> > problem. I believe it would be best to have scbbt and t1 "after" all
> > the screen drivers and stuff. From the way it sounds, you have it
> > before "VTIO", "KeyDrv", "JoyDrv" and "SndDrv" which are all subs
> > for SCF and I don't think that would work (??). I would put them
> > just before "Pipeman" or "clock" if you're not using "pipeman"
> > 
> > ezgen /xx/os9boot
> > L pipeman (or clock if not using pipeman)
> > i /xx/xxx/modules/scf/t1.dd
> > 
> > i /xx/xxx/modules/scf/scbbt.dr
> > <enter>
> > 
> > 
> > in that order.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kandur <k at qdv.pw>
> > To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 11:07 pm
> > Subject: [Coco] Adding SCBBT and T1 the easiest way?
> > 
> > 
> > The nos96309l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk
> > does not include the scbbt and T1 modules.
> > I'd like to add these modules the SIMPLEST way to it's os9boot file.
> > My research found this:
> > ----
> > Robert Gault | 31 Oct 17:31 2006
> > Re: NOS9 mb script
> > 
> > Chester A Patterson wrote:
> >> I EZGen'd scbbt and T1 (in that order) in right after SCF, rebooted,
> >> and it didn't work (freeze boot)
> >> I'll try other locations.
> > 
> > Have you tried modifying the scripts in the NitrOS-9 distribution
> > rather than using EZGen? Maybe the problem is with EZGen rather than
> > scbbt and T1. ----
> > Is there an easy way to do it, that works?
> > 
> > Kandur


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