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     In Article <132@wlbreng1.UUCP>
     pete@wlbreng1.UUCP (Pete Lyall) writes:

>        By the way, have you (you = You || Dave) had any trouble using the
>        NEWDISK under version 2.0?? A few of the users on CompuServe have
>        installed it under 2.0, and have had problems.. Initially, after
>        cold start, they fall out of the startup shell script because no
>        paths are set up (!!). If after this, the user MANUALLY does a 
>        chd and chx, the problem is resolved and all functions normally.
>        Another interim fix for this is that the coco 2.0 SYSGO module
>        contains a hook that will attempt to CHD to '/h0' if the user has
>        one in the system. We have found that if these are patched to be
>        '/D0' that all is fine .. Strange, eh...??

The reason that there are no "paths" is because the I$chgdir call in OS9p2
fails and /D0 is not installed in the device table. I was able to determine
that the device initialization code was being executed with no error, but
the whole thing had me stumped for a while. Then it suddenly hit me that
the F$Virq call was located in the Clock module and any call to F$Virq 
before the Clock was started would cause an error. This was what was happen-
ing with Newdisk. Sysgo has already started the Clock by the time that it
attempts the I$chgdir call, so the patches to Sysgo fixed the problem.
Removing one line from the source will permanently cure the problem. This
line is located in subroutine DSKSTART.

    OS9  F$VIRQ
    PULS Y
    BCS  RETURN3 <---- Remove this line!!!

There is also a problem with Newdisk if you have your drives jumpered for
head load on device select. Newdisk deselects the drive upon completion
of a command. This leads to an inordinate amount of head banging. Make
the following changes to correct the offending code.

CCDEXIT LDA  #8
        STA  >DPORT
        PULS A,X,PC

Change this to:

CCDEXIT PULS A,X,PC


Kent D. Meyers
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