Date   : Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:25:23 +0100
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: A thought for Domesday

Hi --

On 27 Apr 2009 00:18:03 +0100, jgh@... (Jonathan Graham
Harston) wrote:

> With any filing system you can copy the data off the laserdiscs, eg
> with *treecopy vfs::0 net::backup.domesday which I did back at
> Stirling, and forgot to keep a backup of.

I'm having some issues doing this tbh, mostly in the file DATA1 where it
dies at an as-yet-unknown place and I get Disc Error 03. The only way to
sort it is a ctrl-break, presumably because either the SCSI interface or
the LVROM is reset into an uninitialised state.

My next step on this is to write something (probably utilising the ARM7)
which will chunk the data off - then at least I'm not starting from the
beginning if it goes mad and can give the player a bit of a rest
occasionally. I have my AUG in my bag to read over lunchtime ;)

Another query: Have any Domesday-ers seen the 'Turn Interlace On' error and
know what causes it? As I'm not using the genlock I've just been plugging
the Master AIV's RGB output straight into a CUB monitor, I'm wondering if
there's some sort of error caused by the genlock because it's not having
any input across it. Reproduceable by doing *VFS from (say) CTRL-A-BREAK to
select ADFS, but if I CTRL-BREAK into the VFS then do *ADFS then back to
*VFS it works fine.

Jonathan: You might be able to answer this one, what's the maximum file
size on ADFS then?

Cheers


j