BitWiz
Experienced Member
I want to make a version of Serial Disk that supports RX01 & RX02 floppies.
Is all I need to do is add the appropriate Load and Install commands in the runbuild script?
I see RX02.BX, RXSY1.SY and RXSY2.SY on the default Serial Disk SYS: drive.
I'm a bit confused because the OS/8 Device Extensions User's Guide lists the drivers as RXSY1.BN, RXSY2.BN & RXNS.BN.
Can I just add:
LOAD SYS:RXSY1.SY
LOAD SYS:RXSY2.SY
IN RXSY1:RXA0
IN RXSY2:RXB0
The OS/8 Build command has always flummoxed me and old age hasn't made it any easier.
My goal is to build bootable RX01 and RX02 Diskettes so that I can boot off of them. So any advice here would be greatly appreciated.
I have heard that it is difficult to boot OS/8 off of an RX02 formatted diskette and I have no problem running the boot drive as an RX01 and the data data drive as an RX02.
Vince, thank you for your help in this in the past, now I'm actually ready to try it.
I am also getting some strange errors from my system when running off of serial disk.
BUILD lists the following devices:
.R BUILD
$PRINT
BAT : *BAT
KL8E: *TTY
LPSV: *LPT
RK8E: *SYS RKA0 RKB0
RK05: *RKA0 *RKB0 *RKA1 *RKB1 RKA2 RKB2 RKA3 RKB3
RX02: *RXA0 *RXA1
TD8A: *DTA0 *DTA1
RL0 : *RL0A *RL0B
DSK=RK8E:SYS
$QLIST
BAT TTY LPT RK8E:SYS RKA0 RKB0 RKA1 RKB1 RXA0 RXA1 DTA0 DTA1 RL0A RL0B
DSK=RK8E:SYS
$
But when I try to access any of those block devices other than SYS: and DSK: the system hangs.
When I try to access the the SDSN drives I get the following:
.DIR SDA0
0 Files in 0 Blocks - 147 Free blocks
I am using the following command line to start SerialDisk:
sudo ./server -1 ../installer/diagpack2.new -2 ../disks/diag-games-kermit.dsk -3 ../disks/diagpack2_new2.dsk -4 ../disks/diagpack2.dsk
Thanks in advance,
Mike
Is all I need to do is add the appropriate Load and Install commands in the runbuild script?
I see RX02.BX, RXSY1.SY and RXSY2.SY on the default Serial Disk SYS: drive.
I'm a bit confused because the OS/8 Device Extensions User's Guide lists the drivers as RXSY1.BN, RXSY2.BN & RXNS.BN.
Can I just add:
LOAD SYS:RXSY1.SY
LOAD SYS:RXSY2.SY
IN RXSY1:RXA0
IN RXSY2:RXB0
The OS/8 Build command has always flummoxed me and old age hasn't made it any easier.
My goal is to build bootable RX01 and RX02 Diskettes so that I can boot off of them. So any advice here would be greatly appreciated.
I have heard that it is difficult to boot OS/8 off of an RX02 formatted diskette and I have no problem running the boot drive as an RX01 and the data data drive as an RX02.
Vince, thank you for your help in this in the past, now I'm actually ready to try it.
I am also getting some strange errors from my system when running off of serial disk.
BUILD lists the following devices:
.R BUILD
BAT : *BAT
KL8E: *TTY
LPSV: *LPT
RK8E: *SYS RKA0 RKB0
RK05: *RKA0 *RKB0 *RKA1 *RKB1 RKA2 RKB2 RKA3 RKB3
RX02: *RXA0 *RXA1
TD8A: *DTA0 *DTA1
RL0 : *RL0A *RL0B
DSK=RK8E:SYS
$QLIST
BAT TTY LPT RK8E:SYS RKA0 RKB0 RKA1 RKB1 RXA0 RXA1 DTA0 DTA1 RL0A RL0B
DSK=RK8E:SYS
$
But when I try to access any of those block devices other than SYS: and DSK: the system hangs.
When I try to access the the SDSN drives I get the following:
.DIR SDA0
0 Files in 0 Blocks - 147 Free blocks
I am using the following command line to start SerialDisk:
sudo ./server -1 ../installer/diagpack2.new -2 ../disks/diag-games-kermit.dsk -3 ../disks/diagpack2_new2.dsk -4 ../disks/diagpack2.dsk
Thanks in advance,
Mike