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Article #30796Re: ETRNL2 and new roms
From: franco
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 13:44
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 13:44
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I can probably fix ETRNL2 to work with the new ROMS but I need
the following information to do so:
1. What are the locations of phystop, _memtop, drive_bits, _membot,
hdv_BPB, hdv_rw, hdv_mediach
2. Have any changes been made to _kbshift ($B of TRAP $D)? If so,
what? Is the bit vector the same?
If I get this info I will try to assemble a new ETRNL2 and send it to
people to test.
Bonus:
The new ETRNL2 will have a bug fixed: the first version did not
clear the FAT and Root Directory when resizing so resizing downward
according to the instructions given sometimes causes strange files
and folders to appear. This is fixed in all but the first version
I posted and the new ETRNL2 will behave properly in this regard as
well.
I put in a real media change option - this was a result of a program
I wrote to dump a series of floppies to the RAMDISK on bootup. I
found that folders were unknown to the system without a media change
on the "hard-drive" (so here seems to be another case for having
hard disk media changes). This media change option, by the way,
can probably be used for hard-drives as well as the ramdisk without
modification (I am not sure about the modification being unnecessary
since I do not have the code in front of me). However, to use it,
one must force the media change from software. Thus, to do the
media change one must actually run a program to set a bit in the
ramdisk drivers (of course this can be done from a program for
checking free space etc. so the penalty won't look so bad).
Please send system info requested above to:
franco@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Please respond only if you really know the answers to the questions.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!hao!gatech!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!franco From: franco@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ETRNL2 and new roms Message-ID: <36500035@iuvax> Date: 24 Feb 88 13:44:00 GMT References: <432@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk> Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington Lines: 39 Nf-ID: #R:cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk:432:iuvax:36500035:000:1757 Nf-From: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!franco Feb 24 08:44:00 1988