[comp.sys.atari.st] RWABS TRAPPING ERRORS...

cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (03/05/90)

	Yet another Rwabs question:

	Can anyone tell me how to trap the call to the dialog
	box which says something to the effect of Data in
	Drive X: is damages... ?

		Thanks in advance			

			-- Greg

hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) (03/06/90)

In article <16000019@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> 
> 	Yet another Rwabs question:
> 
> 	Can anyone tell me how to trap the call to the dialog
> 	box which says something to the effect of Data in
> 	Drive X: is damages... ?
> 
The reason the call is there is that you are DEAD if the disk fails.

I suspect that you are trying to scan the disk for bad sectors, and don't
want the message.  If so, try OR-ing 0x8 to the command word.  Supra
and or ICD use this to turn off retries, and I would suspect it will also
stop the dialog box  call as well.


Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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