[Coco] Follow-up on swread

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Fri May 30 20:19:14 EDT 2014


Hi Ed,

My VCC boot has the two clock modules:

clock_60Hz (CRC 972B38)
clock_cloud9 (CRC D173CB)

In my startup file I just have:

date -t

It just works!!

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

On 31/05/2014 9:40 AM, Ed Orbea wrote:
> I followed the steps Robert provided in his email and something is 
> still wrong. When I run the I run the date -t command, the date and 
> time are set to 0 so the output is ???, 00 1900 00:00:00
> WHen I wait and the re-execute the command, the time has increased by 
> the amount of time I waited
> For example: ???, 00 1900 00:00:00 wait 20 minutes and ???, 00 1900 
> 00:09:55
>
> I am running VCC 1.43beta (6809 processor with 512k) under WIndows XP 
> (XP SPK3) of a Compaq laptop.
> My windows time service is automatically updated from 
> time.microsoft.com and stays current & accurate
> Switching time servers has no impact
>
> VCC is configured for a clock at 0XFF50-51, with RGB Dos is selected
>
> VCC slot #1 is empty, slot #2 is Orchestra 90, Slot #3 is HardDrive + 
> Cloud9 RTC, Slot #4 is FD502
> T
> he boot file I created and then linked to drive 254 contains these 
> clock modules:
>     MODULES/CLOCK/clock_69hz
>     MODULES/CLOCK/clock2_soft
>
> My startup file on /dd contains the command swread 5 <>>>>/2&
>
> The ident of swread shows:
> size: $00BB  #187
> crc: $F7995D  (Good)
> parity: $93
> exec off: $0013  #19
> size: $00CD  #205
> edition: $0F
> Ty/La At/Rv: $11  $81
> Prog mod, 6809 obj, re-en, R/O
>
> Any recommendations/suggestions?
>
> Ed
>



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