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it's waiting for the HDD to spin up and initialize.
21 May at 1:20 | Open on mastodon.social
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Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

the yellow screen means it is trying to load the Kickstart off of a special drive partition.
21 May at 1:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Tube❄️Time replied to Tube❄️Time

oh that's not good, it blinks red 8 times. this means the drive failed the SCSI mode sense command for some reason. weird.
21 May at 1:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Chartreuse replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime Is that something special added by the controller interface? Or is the onboard boot room able to look for kickstart other than the floppy disk?

21 May at 2:52 | Open on social.restless.systems
Tube❄️Time replied to Chartreuse

@ChartreuseK the onboard (non kickstart) ROM looks at F00000 and finds the controller ROM, which then takes over the boot process. i think this was originally for supporting game cartridges

21 May at 5:05 | Open on mastodon.social
Chartreuse replied to Tube❄️Time

@tubetime Ah okay, didn't know that was a thing it did. Certainly a nice feature to not need the kickstart disk to boot a hard disk

21 May at 5:15 | Open on social.restless.systems
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