12 Apr
1998
12 Apr
'98
8:58 p.m.
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Wirehead Prime wrote:
All righty then, thanks to the kind help of Allison,
the Northstar will
now attempt to boot off a drive set to DS0. The CPU's POJ address is now
set the Northstar MDS-AD3 controller card. On boot, it goes
read-read-read, read-read-read, read-read-read and gives up.
Does it just give up, or does it leave a numeric series message on the
terminal? My Horizon does the read-read-read thing and displays its boot
message in about the time it takes to say 'boot Northstar DOS'. I don't
have a gouge handy, but is the AD3 the DD controller?
Doug Coward had sent me an NSDOS boot diskette, which
I'm trying to boot,
and something doesn't seem happy. Is there any reason I couldn't use the
MPI-52 drive I'm trying to use? Is there any reason I shouldn't try a
known-good Shugart SA400? I also tried a half-height 360k floppy drive
for giggles with the same result.
Any of them should work if jumpered properly. Mine has two full high
drives in the cabinet, and a couple half high ones in an external box.
Both sets work fine.
Does anyone have boot diskettes for CP/M for this
machine? Can anyone
offer advice or assistance? In short, HELP! =-)
I could make up and proof a couple of diskettes for you. E-mail me if
you are interested.
- don
Anthony Clifton - Wirehead