Re: FocusDrive and Interrupts

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 1 nov, 19:39, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> mdj wrote:
>
> > What you probably want is a IIgs or IIc reference manual that covers
> > the SmartPort API.
>
> Great. :-) My available technical documentation essentially ends with the
> enhanced IIe. I can count on zero fingers the number of tech ref manuals
> that I've got for the IIc (Plus) and IIgs. But I've got user documentation
> for those two machines. How helpful!
>
>
>
> > In case the naming is confusing, SmartPort is not just the disk port
> > on the back of a //c onwards Apple II, it also specifies a standard
> > API through which Block (and Character) devices communicate with the
> > host OS.
>
> Yeah, I saw that when I used the Slot Scan 1.62 program, the FocusDrive was
> identified as SmartPort Device (Error #39).
>
> By the way, does anyone know what Error #39 means? It's come up in this
> group before, and also with a FocusDrive, but it was never explained.
>
> > It was called Protocol Converter in the original //c UniDisk
> > implementation. Googling on that may turn up some additional
> > documentation you might find interesting.
>
> Thanks; I'll look around.

If 39 is decimal, it is I/O ERROR $27, boooooommmmmmm.
if 39 is hexadecimal, then I have no idea.

antoine