[Coco] format problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 19 January 2019 17:08:48 Tormod Volden wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 10:40 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I have managed to get the twin seagate 1G drives to spin up again,
> > so my coco is running. My latest build of nitros9 has a format
> > command that $10C7 byte long, same as my latest nitros9 build for a
> > 6309.
>
> ...
>
> > At the end of all this, it looks as if I have exactly the same code
> > as my March 2016 build, possibly with some descriptor fixes by Chris
> > Hawk.
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> The level1/cmds/format.asm in the repo hasn't had any code changes
> since 2005: Module size: $10C7  #4295
> Module CRC : $0ABD19 (Good)
>
> > Format it unchanged. Still needs 11170 bytes of sysram, but but I
> > only have 10k available. That equals an out of ram crash by about
> > the 3rd track written to a floppy. Since it writes a track at a time
> > while formatting, that seems like its asking for more memory than it
> > needs.
>
> Yes, can anyone explain why it needs so much memory?
>
> > But adjusting its memory either direction only makes it crash before
> > even stepping to the next track. So I still can't format anything.
> >
> > Whats the maximum size I can merge to make a shell, this one is
> > $1DC7 long.
>
> Your $1DC7 is 7623 decimal. The cmds/makefile in the repo warns that
> the shell module must be less than 7681 bytes. Not sure why.
>
So I am within that, should not be a problem. But format, os9gen, and 
probably cobbler I know has been worked on since 2005. The changes 
SHOULD by now have made it to the repo. Or has the repo been moved from 
hg to git, and the old one is still online? A snapshot in time then...

Sysgo from a supposedly bootable floppy image says C 2014, 
www.nitros9.org, does not contain a version string.

Come on guys, those of you who been kicking the tires and making it work 
better on your systems, please get those changes into hg so the rest of 
us can play with a more solid base.

I'm a bit bionic these days, had a pacemaker installed about 10 days ago, 
my pulse was getting pretty random, averaging in the mid 30's, and I 
must say its made a heck of a difference, I've been down and back up the 
basement steps a dozen times while tending to some overdue laundry 
today, doing it w/o a lot of the former pain I was having. Compared to a 
month back, the difference is amazing.

I asked the surgeon if this gismo would get me another 25k miles & he 
said surely you drive faster than that, the battery is a ten year 
battery. :)
> Regards,
> Tormod


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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