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#: 19523 S1/General Interest
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24-Dec-93 04:51:01
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Sb: #Disk Controller damaged
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Fm: Martin S. Wayne 73541,45
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To: ALL
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I MISTAKENLY TOOK OUT A PROGRAM PAK FROM MY MULTIPLEX WITH THE MACHINE ON. THE
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COCO3 RUNS FINE BUT I NO LONGER HAVE A WORKING DISK DRIVE. THIS IS WRITTEN ON
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AN IBM MACHINE. I THINK MY DISK CONTROLLER HAS BEEN DAMAGED. ALL THREE LIGHTS
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ON MY THREE DRIVES LIGHT UP, BUT I GET NO DIR OR ANYTHING.
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Does anyone know where I can get the controller repaired? I live in
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Westchester County New York.
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Sorry for the capitals at first. This is my first try at writing a note in
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years.
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Thanks for your attention
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 19524 S1/General Interest
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24-Dec-93 10:15:59
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Sb: #19523-Disk Controller damaged
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Martin S. Wayne 73541,45
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> I MISTAKENLY TOOK OUT A PROGRAM PAK FROM MY MULTIPLEX WITH THE MACHINE
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> ON. THE COCO3 RUNS FINE BUT I NO LONGER HAVE A WORKING DISK DRIVE. THIS
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> IS WRITTEN ON AN IBM MACHINE. I THINK MY DISK CONTROLLER HAS BEEN
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> DAMAGED. ALL THREE LIGHTS ON MY THREE DRIVES LIGHT UP, BUT I GET NO DIR
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> OR ANYTHING.
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> Does anyone know where I can get the controller repaired? I live in
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> Westchester County New York.
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>
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> Sorry for the capitals at first. This is my first try at writing a note
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> in years.
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>
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Ouch! Dosen't sound good .... but it may be the multipak that's hosed, not the
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controller. Have you considered plugging the controller into the CoCo3 to see
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if it works? (If this is a real old controller, don't bother. It will need the
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MPI for the 12 volts it requires. But if it's one of the newer, smaller
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controllers that only 5 volts, you should be in good shape.
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Do the drive lights light up immediately upon power up? If so, is it possible
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you've somehow flipped the cable around? This is indicative of having the cable
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switched.
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*- Steve -*
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#: 19530 S1/General Interest
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25-Dec-93 10:42:21
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Sb: Happy Holidays!
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Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
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To: all
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Merry Christmas to all!!
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------------------------------------
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Zack C Sessions
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ColorSystems
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"I am Homer of Borg, prepare to be assimi ... OOOOHHH, DOUGHNUTS!"
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#: 19525 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Dec-93 15:58:30
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Sb: #19515-dcheck/del question
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: roy harrell 72520,1636
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That is very strange. I have a multi-processor Force box at work with one
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CPU30 and four CPU33s. It is up around the clock for perhaps 2.5 years and
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hasn't hosed the hard disk ever. There is a known bug that can waste the root
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directory if the disk gets full. Could that be the problem?
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Carl
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#: 19519 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Dec-93 11:14:15
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Sb: #19313-Screen program for OSK
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Fm: robert brose 72067,3021
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)
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Ed, I haven't heard from him in a while. I'll gove some of my various addresses
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to him a try and see what I find.
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#: 19520 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Dec-93 11:15:03
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Sb: #19313-Screen program for OSK
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Fm: robert brose 72067,3021
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)
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Ed, BTW, have you gotten screen to work correctly on the Sys IV??? Bob
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#: 19526 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Dec-93 15:58:51
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Sb: #19475-#C problems
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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You already have the solution to your problem, so I won't belabor that. I would
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strongly advise you to always use enough parens to clearly indicate (to the
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compiler and anyone who follows your footsteps) your intentions. They don't
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affect the code generated (unless it was wrong before) and prevent these sorts
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of problems. The rule is: if in doubt, add more.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 19528 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Dec-93 20:47:15
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Sb: #19526-#C problems
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X)
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Thanks Carl. Yes, using lots of parenthesis is a good idea....
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BTW, do you know if your pmem program will run with SSM? I may have an older
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copy of it and it gives a 102 or 103 on my SSM system.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 19529 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Dec-93 22:55:24
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Sb: #19528-C problems
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)
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I haven't looked lately, but perhaps not. When I got the 030, I had to go back
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through a lot of that stuff and add permit/protect. I will look and mail a
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more current one if I have it.
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#: 19521 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Dec-93 19:55:30
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Sb: #19518-I got it! Happy^2 Joy^2!
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: PaulSeniura 76476,464
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Hiya, Paul. Sorry, no answers to your questions. Just wanted to welcome you to
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the wonderful world of OSK. Have fun.
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Oh, for multiple screens (sorry, text only) you might want to look at the
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'screen.lha' package in lib 12.
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#: 19522 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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23-Dec-93 19:55:39
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Sb: C problems
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: All
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I think I may have found a bug in the 2.3 C realloc() function. What appears to
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happen is:
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If realloc() fails (ie. returns a NULL ptr) it appears that the original memory
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passed is freed! I have some code which looks something like this:
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newbuf=realloc(bufstart, memreq);
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if(!newbuf) ... report no more room error and restart....
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if(newbuf!=bufstart) ...set 'bufstart' etc to newbuf values if buffer moved
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However, using SSM any access to memory in the original buffer generates a bus
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error. I have verified this with srcdbg.
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I have avoided the problem by not using realloc(). Instead I always allocate a
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completely new buffer and then copy the old buffer to the new one and free()
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the old one. This works...but is wasteful if the original could have been
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expanded as realloc() does.
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Anyone else had a similar problem?
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#: 19527 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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24-Dec-93 18:05:12
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Sb: Greetings
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Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
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To: All
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
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