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From: fall@ektools.UUCP (Jeff Fall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Formatting problems with OS-9
Keywords: /d0 /h0 format os9 os-9 jeff fall problem
Message-ID: <2469@ektools.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 03:14:58 GMT
Sender: fall@ektools (Jeff Fall)
Organization: Eastman Kodak, Dept. 47, Rochester N.Y.
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The joys and pitfalls of OS-9.  I have recently `discovered' OS-9 and
have a lot of plans to perform process control with it for radio
control, (ham repeaters).  I have been struggling to get a decent
development system up and running with a hard disk and the Microware
`C' coompiler.  After a weekend of fighting with B&B documentation,
cabling and dd controller cards, I finally have a hard disk /H0 on
line, (sort of).
  I would like to pose a list of questions probably anyone who has
installed a B&B hard drive adapter/software package might pose.  Some
of these are simply problems I have no solution (yet) fo.
  1) Does anyone have the exact data for an ST125 Seagate Hard disk?
mine is from a stripped AT and I don't have a data sheet.  I used the 
values supplied by B&B but question the accuracy of such values.

  2) I had little success using OS9gen to alter the base system or gen.
as supplied by Tandy.  I followed B&B's manual on using DDmaker to 
produce a device descriptor for the Seagate ST125.  I selected the
full function devioce driver: BBFhdisk.dr.  I loaded both H0.dd
and BBFhdisk.dr into the MODULES directory of the CONFIG disk.
I ran config and selected the default D0_35S drive and the new
H0 entry which showed up at the bottom of the menu.  Config
ran smoothly and produced a bootable floppy.  Upon booting
the floppy, OS-9 comes up and I was able to format the hard
drive and store files on it.  I tried then to format a floppy
on /D0 and am returned a ERROR #244.
  To check the build, I ran config again and selected all previous
devices except the H0 hard disk. Booted new gen and was able to format 
/D0 flawlessly.  I'm wondering if the drivers for /H0 and /D0 are
interfering with each other? B&B is `XT 2.4b' release and OS-9 is
level II on a CoCo III.  Floppy is FD-502.

  3) I've been trying to run the CRC Superpak in slot 1 using
/T2.  When I try to copy to /T2, the system hangs.  Are there some
configuration issues not in the documentation?             
 
  4) I'm using to Western Digital `GEN' series of hd disk
controller.  I soldered the B&B bootable ROM into the controller
and am not able to boot or produce even an error when 
I have selected slot 3 which is where the hd controller lives.
It's like the CoCo can't even see the ROM in the controller.
Do I have to strap addresses on the WD GEN hd controller card??
B&B doesn't address GEN card configuration.

  Many thanks to OS-9 Gurus and hackers who can help me
untangle all of this.

Yours in =stable configurations,

   Jeff Fall