[Coco] toolshed tools lock up on ?FS ERROR disks

[Arthur Flexser]

Yes, the status byte is at $F0, right after all the other DSKCON variables
(zero=>no error).

Art

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 6, 2017, at 2:05 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > You don't really need a disk zapper for this.  Here's a Basic program
> that
> > would copy T0S2 to T17S2:
>
> Ah, I meant for inspecting the disk to look at it. I was thinking I could
> use DSKI$/DSKO$ to move the sectors (though I bet ColorZap does that too,
> if it's like dEd).
>
> > 10 DK=256*PEEK(&HC004)+PEEK(&HC005)  'DSKCON exec address
>
> COOL!  - I only saw DSKCON being used in a BASIC program recently, when I
> was going through old disks and found some software by Joel Hegberg. I do
> not remember ever knowing how to do that.
>
> This would get around I/O ERROR on a CoCo 1/2 (without the ON ERROR
> command).
>
> How do you detect an error? I assume there's a status byte you can read
> somewhere?
>
>                 -- Allen
>
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