Re: can't acces floppy .adf images

[Ralph C. <ra...@in...>]

Hi Dmitry,

> I am using the cvs versoin, compiled on 2.6.16 linux and whenever I
> try to access a floppy, I have a message box "Disc error 09 at
> :4/00000C00" and a lot of messges on the terminal:

OK, the `:4' means drive 4 and RISC OS treats drives 0 to 3 as floppies,
and 4 to 7 as hard drives.  How do you know it's a floppy you're
accessing?  Are you in the Desktop?  If so, the icon would have `:0'
under it for drive 0.  If you have a `*' command line prompt, which you
get with F12 in the Desktop, then the command `cat :0' would catalogue
drive 0 IIRC.  Type `help cat' for more.

> Seek - cylinder address greater than configured (=0)
> Read data command exiting due to failed file seek
> Seek - cylinder address greater than configured (=0)
> Read data command exiting due to failed file seek
> Seek - cylinder address greater than configured (=5)
> Seek - cylinder address greater than configured (=0)
> Read data command exiting due to failed file seek

This suggests the hard disc image file for drive 4 is a different size
to what's configured in the arcemrc file.  See
http://arcem.sourceforge.net/manual.html#HDimages  The error messages
could do with a lot of improving.  The image file for RISC OS drive 4 is
`HardImage0', confusingly, because it's the first hard drive.

> I have a file HDFORMAT.ADF, downloaded from arcem site, in the working
> directory of the emulator, symlinked to FloppyImage0.

OK, although if you get one of the pre-formatted for RISC OS hard drive
images from http://arcem.sourceforge.net/index.html#downloads then you
shouldn't need to format it.

> ROM Image is from support2.zip file.

RISC OS 3.11 IIRC.

> Anyone knows how to resolve this?

Hope this is some help.  The developers' list has people on it that know
these answers.  The users' list is even more quiet and I think I'm the
only one here to answer.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arcem-devel

> PS. I am no Acorn user, I am playing with the emulator to get ArcElite
> running :)

My Elite playing was on a BBC Master.  :-)

Cheers,


Ralph.