Crash wrote:Attached is a Wakepup2 floppy image incorporating the changes discussed above. ...
Have just tested the new Wakepup2 floppy on my CF-25.
I had the following devices with bootable Puppy files attached:
1. Parallel Port Zip
2. pcmcia_scsi CD-ROM with LiveCD
3. parallel port CDROM (Backpack) with LiveCD
4. Compact Flash card in pcmcia slot
Since my machine has no USB port, I couldn't check that boot capability. But for the above I'm sorry to report that, instead of making progress, we're going backwards.
1. the parallel port zip performance is unchanged, aspi ppm drivers report "no adapter", guest.exe finds the drive and assigns letter "W:",
Puppy files are detected on W:\ and C:\, when W: is selected, the boot process continues, save files are presented for bootup, and when "0" or anything else is selected, the process grinds to a halt with the same old error message:
pup_400.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
2. the worst regression is with the pcmcia_scsi. Previously Freedos loaded aspi4dos (IIRC) successfully and detected the pcmcia scsi host adapter, reported its name, scsi ID, LUN, and the process continued to the same point of failure as in the PP ZIP drive above.
Now, although I chose to load all drivers, none were installed, and no scsi devices were detected. So this aspect of the new Wakepup is a complete wipeout.
3. the parallel port Backpack performance is also absolutely zilch. I wonder whether the corrupted BPCD drivers got back into the image, because the drive isn't even recognized in Freedos now (IIRC, it was previously)
4. the Compact Flash card also went undetected, despite my choosing to load all available drivers and try all listed peripherals. Not really surprising, since the new Wakepup doesn't seem to be able to recognize pcmcia at all.
I had high hopes of this option, since we were previously able to read the CD on the pcmcia_scsi chain. And by substituting a pcmcia CF card adapter for the pcmcia_scsi host adapter, we eliminate the need to support the scsi controller. So this is the biggest disappointment of all.
After running all these tests, some of them several times, I booted from the hard drive with the CF card and the pcmcia_scsi drive attached to make sure that these devices were properly attached and working. Both the CF card and the LiveCD in the scsi drive mounted without problems in Puppy 3.01 Retro.
I couldn't run this test on the parallel port drives because Puppy 3.01 Retro doesn't support either of them (neither does Puppy 4.0).
That's all folks. I wish I hadn't overwritten my previous Wakepup2 floppy.
PS. it's also maddening to have to boot up Windows to write the floppy image because Puppy doesn't have Rawrite available.