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From: adp1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Rwabs/Hard Disks
Keywords: sozobon,rwabs,hard disks
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Date: 12 Mar 90 15:57:29 GMT
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Hello,

A)...
  I tried yesterday to write a program to read in the FAT table and the root
directory off a disk using the Rwabs(..) call in sozobon C. It seemed to do
this fine on disks A and B, but an attempt to do this off my hard disk caused
a crash/lockup on the Rwabs call.
  I understand that some problem with Rwabs has been discussed in this group,
but I must have missed it. Could some kind soul send me a summary of what
the discussion was about and/or tell me if I am doing anything stupid!!!

B)...
  The aforemetioned hard drive is one that I have just obtained. It is a Power
Computing Series 900 Drive (48Mb 28ms). It came with an external power supply 
with a 2 pin round pin plug on it!!). It seems to have some kind of clock in 
it, but it is really strange, it seems to remember the time and date at which
it was turned off at, as long as the length of time isn't longer than about a
day! It seems to require 2 attempts at booting after being turned on for the
first time, however long you wait before powering up the ST, and after resetting
the ST the screen flickers horrendously (like putting the screen to 60Hz mode)
before it boots and restores the white blank screen.
  Has anybody else got any experience with this make of drive, and if so could
they let me know if it does similar things.

Thanks,
 Andrew.

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| Andrew Pollard            | adp1@uk.ac.reading.cs.csug                       |
| Dept of Computer Science  | adp1%uk.ac.reading.cs.csug@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay    |
| Reading University        |                                                  |
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