Date   : Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:52:20 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: anybody use awServer?

Well After about two years of trying to get around to it, I finally 
have a network on my desk.. Master 128+co-pro+GoMMC, Model B, and an 
A5000..  (barely any room for my coffee cup now!)

I've put awServer 
<http://www.heyrick.co.uk/econet/othersrv/awserver.html> on the 
a5000, and, after discovering the 77 filename limit, added raFS ..

It all seems to work, however restoring the backup gets me lots of 
corruption - specifically, files are truncated!  8K ROM images come 
out fine, for instance, but 16K images arrive at about 9K in 
size...  Larger text files seem to start about half way though.. Hmm...

The backup was made using a prog called "Archive" and is restored 
with "GetBack".  (I've yesterday hacked this about a bit to allow me 
to start at an arbitrary disc, because errors 15 discs in are not 
funny when it takes all day to get there - too many 1K files..)  but 
I suspect it's probably something to do with larger files being 
copied in chunks, possible an OSGBPB issue with awServer? I know this 
worked on an L3 system in 1989..

Somebody did put up some Acorn L4 disc images a while back, but I 
never managed to make any sense of the images - couldn't write them 
in any format that they were recognised by anything..  Has anybody 
had any success with these?


I've also tried Level 3 using the GoMMC as a hard disc, but the 
initialiser trashes the hard disc image before it gets anywhere, as 
John's patches don't support the OSWORD &72 command &1A - Mode sense, 
so it can't get the size of the drive.  I'll have to hack this about 
a bit more I think, but it's just so horribly written...
IF blah ELSE UNTIL 0 ... I know GOTO is frowned upon but a sequence 
of these just feels so much worse!
I'd rather not use the Master and GoMMC as a fileserver, though, as 
t's more  use as a workstation; I've also found using the A5000 was 
andy for transferring files off because it'll write standard PC 
ompatible floppies.

o... sorry it's a bit OT (Where else should I ask?) but has anybody 
lse had any similar issues with awServer or raFS - I'm not sure 
hich one is causing the problem - truncating files?
Cheers!
Rob.