#: 12441 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    28-Sep-91  23:09:16
Sb: #HardDrive_Hlp
Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142
To: All

Dear Friends:

Recently, I was given a Harddrive packaged by the Integra Company. It contains
a Seagate 178N HD and power supply. While it is originally for the MAC the
internal cable mate up with the cable from my DISTO 4-in-1. It is possible that
there may be a sector problem on the HD, but I was able to get it to lowlevel
format under RSDOS. Here begins, the problems. I have had the SC-2 and 4-in-1
hooked to my COCO3 with 512k and a model 26_3124 Multipak for almost two years.
The only part of the 4-in-1 that I have used so far is the RTC. This did not
require the nine volt power supply to work. I plugged in the nine volt adapter,
supplied by DISTO and I could no longer get a directory under RSDOS or OS9. If
I turned the power supply off, then I could get it. Next I booted up OS9. I
loaded in the following modules and CMDS from the DISTO disk:
cchdisk_SCSI_LII.dr, h0_4in1SCSI.dd, and HMODE. I then did an mdir and got:

   Module Directory at 21:08:17 REL       Boot      OS9p1     OS9p2     Init
IOMan    RBF CC3Disk   D0 D1        DD        SCF       CC3IO     WindInt  
Term     W   W1        W2 W3        W4        W5        W6        W7        W8
W9  W10       W11 W12       PRINTER   P         SIO       T2        ACIAPAK  T1
CC3Go     Clock GrfDrv    Shell     Copy      Date      DeIniz    Del      Dir
Display   Echo Iniz      Link      List      Load      MDir      Merge    Mfree
Procs Rename    Setime    Tmode     Unlink    gshell    vi       CCHDisk      
H0 dmode

Next I did Hmode/h0 and got /h0 cyls=615 hds=4 step=0 sectrk=32 sectrk0=32
alloc=1 ilv=5 initcmd=00 inittbl=026704008000400b000000000000000000000000

I loaded format, and made sure it was then, I typed Format /h0 r
"OS9_HardDrive" as per the instruction in the docs by Brian Lantz and received
a 208 Illegal service request error. It makes no difference if the nine volt
adapter is on or off. In case it matters

Mfree showed

 Blk Begin   End   Blks  Size
 --- ------ ------ ---- ------
  17  2E000  75FFF   24   288k
                   ==== ======
            Total:   24   288k

Previously, under a different system master, I received a 237 System ram full
error. What am I doing wrong? Do you think that it is a

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