[Coco] Newbie NitrOS-9 questions

[Stephen Pereira]

Hello all,

I apologize up front for these newbie questions…

Now that I have my tricked-out CoCo 3 system, I want to try again with NitrOS-9.

My CoCo system is a CoCo 3 with a 6309 processor and the Cloud-9 Triad 512K RAM upgrade.  I am using an HDB-DOS cartridge, and I have Drivewire 4 for my storage system.

As before with my previous stock CoCo 3 (now my backup system) I can boot NitrOS-9.  Once in NitrOS-9, I can issue the mfree command and I get:

A    14000    1BFFF      4       32k
F    1E000    7BFFF    2F    376k

Total:                           32    400k

So, it looks like NitrOS-9 is seeing my 512K RAM just fine.

I can issue the cputype command, and I get:

CPU: 6309, running in 6809 mode.

Here come the newbie questions:

My prompt looks like this:   (Term:02)/DD:

I can issue a dir command and get the directory listing.  I can issue a dir ./cmds  command, and see the contents of the cmds sub-directory.  HOWEVER, when I try to issue a dir /d1 or dir /D1 or dir /d2 or …  I get error messages like #216 or #240

I have both The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 and The Complete Rainbow Guide to OS-9 Level II books, and they both start off with looking at different disk drives and formatting blank disks.  And here I am getting error messages when I attempt to look at virtual disk drives on my Drivewire.

What am I doing wrong?  I am using the same NitrOS-9 boot disk that I was using on my 6809 CoCo 3.  Is that it?  I thought that the 6309 would use the 6809 code fine.

Sorry for being a cry-baby with this.  Thanks very much for listening.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE