[Coco] NitrOS9 stability

[Bill Pierce]

Bill, I run the latest version of NitrOS9 regularly and find no problems, though there's been some reported problems with the CoVDG (PMode) graphics routines. Since I don't use these drivers, I don't run into this.
At one time I was running a GlensideIDE & DriveWire on my real Coco3, the latest SD card drivers & DriveWire for the Coco3FPGA, and VCC with EmuDsk & Drivewire drivers. None of these had problems. I don't have a system up at the moment to do any testing.
BUT... it has been noted here on the list that there's problems with format AND os9gen, especially when running from scripts like the boot scripts provided on the distro disks.
There was also someone (Allen Huffman??) reporting the SCSI driver (TC^9) was not working properly. The problem in fixing the SCSI driver is that no one has one to test with, at least not the current developers of NitrOS9.

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 8:46 am
Subject: [Coco] NitrOS9 stability


So, no luck getting anything particularly usable going with my TC^3.

Going to give IDE a try next.


But I have one big question.  Do other people find NitrOS9 unstable?

I find that anything beyond the trivial usually crashes the system.

Usually symptom is the video starts going crazy and then the system

just locks up.  Even when running from a remote telnet session.

Format and OS9GEN are the ones I use that do it the most but it often

just happens.  I have two complete different systems and get the

same behavior so I am fairly certain it is not a hardware problem.

Well, unless it is related to the memory upgrades which I have not

found a way to test yet.


Maybe I should try Fuzix just to see if that is more stable.


Any comments?


bill


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