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From: akermanis@trco01.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: ARTICLE
Message-ID: <8811071544.AA29817@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 7 Nov 88 15:44:30 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>Finally let me say that for a while I thought I might be infected
>several months ago.  Seems that L2 COBBLER has a bug whereby it insists
>on padding its output bootfiles to exact multiples of 256 bytes
>(sorta like XModem downloads).  The extra garbage doesn't stop
>booting, but does mess up BootMod utilities and shows up on IDENTs.
>Of course this would have been a pretty crude virus if it were one.
>Anyone else notice this Cobbler bug?

I have not experienced your problem, but have seen another CC3DISK.DR problem
from time to time.

Just recently, I added a 20Meg HD using the B&B interface. This is plugged
into the CC Bus that I have.

Because of this change, I OS9GEN'd a new boot disk. The HD booted just fine
and all seemed well. I tried to write to the floppies, and kept getting
Write Verification errors or you could not create a new boot volume.

All I did was reshuffle CC3DISK around and BINGO, everything works fine
now. This bug I still do not understand. Even when all I had was just the
Floppy controller plugged in many moons ago, I would come across this problem.

Any thoughts on this problem or cure ?

John Akermanis