[9fans] Toshiba Tecra 720 (notebook)

[okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp]

I'm now struggling against Toshiba notebook( really!?, it's too heavy to me)
Tecra 720CT, which has 1024x768x256K colors CT56650 graphic chip.
I got this machine for my happy hacking of Plan 9 for this new year vacation.
Upto now, it's not so happy...because it has problem in floppy drive and 
graphic chip and so on.

I'd like to hear about this machine, if someone else has done it.


I'm now constructing kfs on this machine from our network, and it may be 
going good, at least notebook's hard disk is working to write something 
now. :-)

This Toshiba's notebook has external three mode floppy drive, which is 
different from PC's three mode, but it domestic one.  It is three mode of 
720KB, 1.2MB and 1.44MB.  The middle is for old domestin NEC machine 
which is once the most major PC in Japan.   The problem I'm suffering now 
may be more common to many of Japanese Plan 9 users, particularly 
notebook users (because we cannot change the drive!).


When I try to boot from floppy, it fails at reading plan9.ini file.  

(C) Copyright 1996, 98 Toshiba Corp.  All rights reserved.
Memory Initialize 48096KB

PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0B00 mwdma 0407
dev A0 port 170 config 85A0 capabilities 0E00 mwdma 0000
using sdC0!dos!plan9.ini   <====== can't find this in the floppy!!!
#y0: 2 slot Intel 82365SL: port 0x3E0 irq 5
#l0: xcvr10BaseT 3C589
ether#0: 3C589: port 0x240 irq 10: xxxxxxxxxxxx
diabase (192.168.1.11!67): /386/9pcdisk.gz
gz ... 481665=>614086+480172+85356=1179614
entry: 80100020
cpu0: 133MHz GenuineIntel P54C (cpuid AX 0x052C DX 0x01BF)
#y0:2 slot Intel 82365SL: port 0x3E0 irq 5
#l0: 3C589: 10Mbps port 0x240 irq 10: xxxxxxxxxxxx
dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0B00 mwdma 0407
dev A0 port 170 config 85A0 capabilities 0E00 mwdma 0000
7291 free pages
13636K swap
#A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB 16 compatible
root is from (il, local)[il]:

The error messages I got (by setting chatty=1 in dosboot.c file) are too much
volume to me, and essentially, it says cann't read floppy drive.
After I booted this machine from network, I can't mount this floppy.

This is the first problem.   The second concerns with graphic chip, however,
it's not so serious now, because I'm doing now as VGA, yes, small window. :-)

Kenji