Re: A couple of PET drive problems...

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 2007-03-22 05:47:07

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Marko [iso-8859-1] Mäkelä wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 05:23:17AM +0000, William Levak wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Bryan Pope wrote:
>>
>>>> Can you read the error channel when the drive powers up?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No..  I tried doing ?ds$ like Bill D. suggested, but the C= hangs
>>> like before.
>>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> 10 open 15,8,15
>> 20 print st
>> 30 input#15,en,em$,et,es
>> 40 print st
>> 50 close 15
>> 60 print st
>>
>> This splits ?ds$ into its component parts.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, line 10 won't send anything to the bus and thus
> can't fail.  If a file name (disk command) were supplied to the OPEN
> statement, then an attempt would be made to send it.
>
> 	Marko
>
What you missed, is that this command is to the command channel.


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