[Coco] MESS question

[Robert Gault]

You don't "need" iniz and even with it the first disk I/O would produce 
an error. If you don't want a driver descriptor in the boot file, you 
can do the load in startup as follows to prevent this type of error.

* load device driver/descriptor pair
load hdisk
* access with an implied iniz to prevent error reporting
* -a makes attr silent
attr /h0 -a

If you use "iniz /h0" in place of the "attr /h0 -a" you will get a 208 
error the first time you attempt to access the drive. In fact, with a 
real Coco, two hard drives, the driver in the boot file, and one hard 
drive set as /dd, there will still be a 208 error for the second drive 
even with "iniz /h1" in the startup file. Using attr will prevent the 
error because it forces an iniz but then also attempts to access the 
drive. This will give the 208 (illegal service request) error but the -a 
keeps it silent.

Bob Devries wrote:

> Replying to my own question here...:P
> 
> I *think* it was because I had LOADed the device descriptor/driver for 
> H0 into memory, and maybe forgot to INIZ H0, that it didn't work. If I 
> redirected output to the disk I booted from, it worked fine.
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
> 
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Devries" <bdevries at gil.com.au>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 2:40 PM
> Subject: [Coco] MESS question
> 
> 
>> How do I change the memory size used by OS9 L2 to be more than 512K in 
>> MESS (V102)
>>
>> Also, using Nitros9_6309_L2, if I type:
>>
>> dir >textfile
>>
>> The terminal locks up, requiring a CTRL-C to exit. The file is 
>> created, but is empty. Is this a known problem, or am I doing 
>> something wrong?
>> -- 
>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>
>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>
>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>
>>
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