[Coco] NitrOS-9 on a 128k Coco-3

[Kandur]

Robert, I don't have DW, yet.
None of the xmode /term commands worked, 
these made no changes in columns or colors.
The display 1b xx xx commands worked.
http://qdv.pw/coco/blog/2014/06/18/boot/ 
Ok, will check out dEd, that's next.
/d1 is a Panasonic JU-475-4, it works fine in a PC as a 1.2 MB drive.
I want to read a 5.25" DS DD 96TPI 80 floppy. (160 tracks total)
http://qdv.pw/coco/blog/2014/06/18/temporary-setup/ 

Kandur

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 6:03:12 AM, you wrote:
> Kandur wrote:
>> Thanks for the link Bill and many thanks to all who helped.
>> I've got 'nos96809l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk' up and running on my 128k Coco-3.
>> It came up with a very dark green background with black letters, hardly legible.
>> Edited the startup file, changed the display to white background with black letters.
>> It looks great, but after every new boot I have to run '/DD/startup' manually, despite it's attributes are set to e and pe. It seems the startup file is ignored at boot. Help please!
>> I'm feverishly studying the 'OS-9 Level II and the Tandy Color Computer 3' excellent tutorial by Rodger Alexander. Oh boy, I forgot almost everything, and worse then that,
>> I'm mixing up the os-9 and linux commands. (:
>> While I have your ears, can someone tell me, what fd descriptor do I need for my 5.25" drives, to read 160 track diskettes? Yes, my os-9 backups are on DS, 80track on each side, 5.25" floppies.
>> In general, is there a good place to find fd and hd descriptor samples, tutorials somewhere?

>> Kandur


> You may have damaged the startup file. What
> does it say after you edited it? 
> Startup does not require e or pe attributes to be used.

> How did you change the display to white
> background with black letters? By 
> implication you did something to startup (you
> mentioned nothing else) but that 
> should be done by changing /term either with
> xmode and cobbler or using dEd to 
> edit term in OS9Boot.

> If you are booting from a Drivewire disk (has
> dw in the name) then you will find 
> examples of descriptors in the directory tree
> NitrOS-9/6809l2/modules/rbf. You 
> can also use the command
> dmode /D0
> to get an idea of the default parameters for a
> floppy drive. Hard drives are not 
> standard in size so you will need to specify a
> specific unit and the specs 
> before we can advise on descriptor settings.