Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!lzsc!hcj
From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: RWABS TRAPPING ERRORS...
Summary: try the undocumented retry bit
Message-ID: <1358@lzsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 90 18:25:52 GMT
References: <16000019@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <16000019@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> 
> 	Yet another Rwabs question:
> 
> 	Can anyone tell me how to trap the call to the dialog
> 	box which says something to the effect of Data in
> 	Drive X: is damages... ?
> 
The reason the call is there is that you are DEAD if the disk fails.

I suspect that you are trying to scan the disk for bad sectors, and don't
want the message.  If so, try OR-ing 0x8 to the command word.  Supra
and or ICD use this to turn off retries, and I would suspect it will also
stop the dialog box  call as well.


Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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