#: 11584 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    02-Aug-91  16:53:33
Sb: #11583-#DS-69B and Hard Drive...
Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
To: Lee Veal 74726,1752 (X)

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I use the Puppo keyboard interface (which has a ROM that bypasses his built-in
menu), so I did a CTRL-ALT-INS to do the full reset.  The results were the
same.  After the memory check, the hard drive was accessed but the boot
apparently wtsn't found, then the floppy was accessed, and the DECB message
popped onto the screen.
  Initially, I thought that the HD was on the fritz.  I checked the cabling,
power, connections, contacts, and tried the boot again.  Same results!

  Remembering that I had plugged in the DS-69B before I started having trouble,
and even though I knew that "it couldn't be causing the problem", I unplugged
it and retried the boot process.  The system booted and came up without a
hitch!!!

  Later after finishing my OS-9 work, I wanted to make sure that the earlier
booting failures weren't just quirky one-time anomales.  I plugged the DS-69B
back into the MPI (slot 2, just as before).  Powered on the system and the
sywtem would not boot.  In every case the HD was accessed then floppy drive 0
accessed as if the boot couldn't be fouId on the HD.  I can only assume that
the system would have booted from floppy had I had a bootable diskette
installed in drive 0, but I don't know that for sure.  The object was to get
the system to boot from the HD while the DS-69B was plugged in.  The objective
was not reached.

Anyone have any clues as to what is going on here?

If I haven't provided enough details, I will be glad to answer any questions
that come up and that I can.

Thanx,

Lee

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