Re: ADTPro client disk format problems

[sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

On Feb 7, 9:24 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 3:29 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:> schmidtd wrote:
> > > At least one of the routines in the formatting code is sensitive to
> > > timing, and thus its placement in memory (it can't span a page
> > > boundary).  I'm sure the ethernet client has broken this rule now, but
> > > the serial client should be happier. I'll have to play with that on my
> > > Iic and see what's up.
>
> > And is there a chance that the Ethernet card uses interrupts and
> > that the formatting routine doesn't disable them?
>
> Alas, no, I can't blame the Ethernet card. :-(

But you can blame the formatting routine. It doesn't disable
interrupts. A //c or IIgs can definitely generate interrupts. They
need to be disabled for writing.

Cheers,
Nick.