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From: koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: OS9 help
Summary: Try re-naming your drives
Keywords: OS9 level2 6809 COCO HELP
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Date: 23 Sep 88 22:55:07 GMT
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In article <652@esquire.UUCP> wynkoop@esquire.UUCP (Brett Wynkoop) writes:
>greeting-
>     I am having a few problems that I have not been able to figure out,
>I hope someone longer in the tooth than I can offer me some advice.
[... system description ...]
>     1-st225 using BURKE & BURKE interface and software with everexx
>controler
>	This drive is named /dd and /H0 and has been online about 3 weeks
[ describes problems with ASM, C compiler, Profile not recognizing hard disk ]
>
>	    Brett
>
>.....cmcl2!esquire!wynkoop

A suggestion that many people seem unaware of is that re-naming your drives
can remove many of these problems.  A suggested naming for your drives,
that will get most programs running well, is:

 - hard drive:  dd, d0
 - floppy drives: f0, f1, f2, etc.

This way, programs that have /d0 or /dd descriptions hard-coded in will
automatically go to the hard disk.  If you want overkill, you can also
set up descriptors for the hard drive named 'd1', and 'h0'.  Then
any software referring to /d0, /d1, /dd, or /h0 will go to the hard
drive.

Using EZGen, which comes with the Burke & Burke controller (a bit complex
to puzzle out, but Chris includes some examples), this is actually fairly
easy to do.

Also, when you make up a new descriptor, you should always test it.

Have you tried 'dir /dd' just to make sure that the /dd is what you think
it is?

					- Tim Koonce

koonce@math.berkeley.edu
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