Re: ROM 3 sucks

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.961228130833.6544E-100000@lars.acc.stolaf.edu>,
Peter Florian Handel  <handel@stolaf.edu> wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Randy Shackelford wrote:
>
>> In article <59d9kk$2s1@news.stolaf.edu>,
>> Peter F Handel  <handel@stolaf.edu> wrote:
>
>> >I'm using a short tif I saw in Nibble a long time ago ("Inst.CDA"?)
>> >to enable them when I don't shift boot, but if I shift boot after
>> >a cold boot and forget to hit # at the * prompt, no programmers CDAs.
>> 
>> It's a built in feature on ROM 3s, which you also get with system 6.0 on
>> 01s. Just go to the setstart control panel and check the check box labeled
>> enable programmer DAs.
>
>(Who uses setstart anyways? :)  ProSel rocks!  Although I probably will on 
>my 2nd GS running only GNO & GS/TCP w/o a monitor or kbd)
>
>This still wouldn't solve my "problem" - that when I shift-boot, the 
>Programmers CDA's aren't activated.

And why wouldn't it? All setstart does is set a bit in PRAM or clear it when
the box is checked/unchecked. The ROM 3 firmware checks this bit and installs
the DAs if it's set. The tool patch code (TS2 I think? for ROM 01) under 6.0
does the same thing. So shift boot or not, you get 'em.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com