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From: wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Rwabs/Hard Disks
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Date: 13 Mar 90 16:47:33 GMT
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In article <2121@onion.reading.ac.uk>, adp1@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk writes...
>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
					...
I can upload some code that does this if you like. It is not usefull per se, it
just reads the fats on a specified disk and looks for sectors marked bad in
the FAT. Works on floppies and hard disks. Let me know if you want to see it.

>B)...
					...
>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
By the sounds of it it does not have a a built in clock (or at least you are
not making use of it). I have had the same thing happen with an external
floppy drive connected. I think what is happening is that enough power is
bleeding back through the DMA/floppy cable back into the ST. The power level
is just enough to keep some memory (presumably in the IKB) from loosing the
time which stored in it. This is all just a guess of course...

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