[Coco] Burke & Burke CoCoXT-RTC under NitrOS9/CoCoSDC

[Travis Poppe]

Sorry, that should have read error #237.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:05 PM, Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I've recently inherited a repacked Color Computer 3 with a lot of real
> hardware in it, and I've got a CoCoSDC board installed there. It has a B&B
> CoCoXT-RTC board with a couple of hard drives.
>
> For those who are not in the Facebook group, this was given to me by my
> Dad for Christmas, and I've been trying to figure out how to make it work.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/BGRA84hyTF8OHiSk1
>
> If I boot a real floppy with the B&B driver and device descriptor loaded
> (/hd), I can at least ping the hard drive with a dir; the LED flashes, but
> for reasons unknown to me it claims the device is "not ready," to translate
> the error code.
>
> This is frustrating and probably hardware related, but what I can't figure
> out is why I can load these exact same modules under NitrOS9 from the
> CoCoSDC, do a dir on /hd, and get an "ERROR 207 - RAM Full." I simply
> copied these from the OS-9 floppy and loaded them under NitrOS9.
>
> The RAM is nowhere near full (1MB), and there is no corresponding LED
> blink.
>
> Am I missing a module? I've got BBFhdisk and 'hd' under mdir. Perhaps you
> can't simply load OS-9 Level II modules under NitrOS9? Maybe you need to
> use os9gen/etc. instead of using 'load'?
>
> I've fortunately got the floppy drives working this way now, which was a
> piece of cake once I managed to get a proper disk image to boot. This
> particular CoCo 3 is cantankerous and needs to be shut down for a solid few
> minutes before it will cooperate with most NitrOS9 images I've tried.
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Travis Poppe
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>



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