9 Apr
1999
9 Apr
'99
3:11 p.m.
At 12:31 PM 4/9/99 -0700, Derek Peschel wrote:
I mentioned that CP/M has similar capabilities. I
didn't mention that it's
more cryptic. A message simply appears:
Bdos Err on A: Bad Sector
This only occurred if your BIOS was too stupid. In the BIOS I wrote for the
16FDC (Cromemco) when a disk eror was "hard" (that is some number of
retries failed to achieve a successful read) I sent a message to the
console asking the user what they wanted to do at that point, they could:
1) return zeros
2) return the error code and get the BDOS message
3) Warmstart
4) Reboot
5) Try again
--Chuck