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Article #41615Re: RWABS TRAPPING ERRORS...
From: HC Johnson
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 18:25
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 18:25
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In article <16000019@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > > Yet another Rwabs question: > > Can anyone tell me how to trap the call to the dialog > box which says something to the effect of Data in > Drive X: is damages... ? > The reason the call is there is that you are DEAD if the disk fails. I suspect that you are trying to scan the disk for bad sectors, and don't want the message. If so, try OR-ing 0x8 to the command word. Supra and or ICD use this to turn off retries, and I would suspect it will also stop the dialog box call as well. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzsc!hcj hcj@lzsc.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!lzsc!hcj From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: RWABS TRAPPING ERRORS... Summary: try the undocumented retry bit Message-ID: <1358@lzsc.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Mar 90 18:25:52 GMT References: <16000019@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA Lines: 21