[Coco] The cobbler "problem"

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Sun Jan 25 02:54:00 EST 2015


Scratch that ... I just found something that will prevent cobbler from ever working on a hard drive:

* Request memory for the FAT buffer + 256 bytes for stack space R.G.
         ldd	<DD.MAP
         addd	#size+256
         os9	F$Mem
         lbcs	NoMem

On a fully loaded hard drive, the FAT is $FFFF, and you can't allocate 64K from the 64K workspace. I don't get the actual error message, though. Mine ends up failing with "Error - can't link to Rel module" followed by a #207.

Either way, the design of the utility for floppies means the modification for hard drives may take a few more lines of code than I planned.

		-- A



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