Date   : Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:53:51 +0100
From   : "Wright, Chris" <Chris.Wright@...>
Subject: Re: MDFS - Hard disc error 98...who cares...CAVE lives!

Chris you are a star, and you have just made an old man very, very
happy.
There are so few copies around, on ageing hardware, I feared it may have
been lost forever. 
Sure has put the accelerator down on getting all my econet bits together
now.

A few questions :

I intend to unzip on the PC and transfer to the beeb on 3.5" floppy. As
this is non RISCOS, how can I preserve the load/exec addresses ? Wait
for the .SSD ?

There is a call to *PUTGET in the !BOOT. What does this do ? We never
had this on my old school network. Maybe this explains why it was a bit
of a dog on the BBC Bs ?

Fabulous job!,
Chris. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of Chris Johns
Sent: 04 September 2006 23:46
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] MDFS - Hard disc error 98 :(

Hi Ian

> In my experience the MDFS likes to be used and the discs like
> to be warm, so if it's been out of service for a while it might be
> worth leaving it running for a couple of hours and then restarting
> it to see if it comes back to life.

Well, I tried plugging it into my linux box, but then the SCSI card on
that was playing up itself, so I gave up on that idea. In a final "last
try" I plugged it back into the MDFS, and behold, it booted up.

I'm now copying the data off onto a second disc (another quantum!) as a
backup. The original drive (that was giving problems was a ProDrive
LPS).

I've also copied CAVE off for anyone else who wants a copy (which was
why I booted the thing up in the first place).

A bit of a close one there, and another lesson that the old kit is
getting rather fragile now.

Cheers

Chris
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Chris Johns <chris@...             >