BAWarp disk imager - Page 11

prowler · 20 January 2009, 23:34

Hi BlueAchenar,

Completed the test on my ESCOM A1200 (without acceleration):

AleWarp v0.1 by BlueAchenar (Jan 2009)

Buffer at 000D4BC0
Rotation 0 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 1 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 2 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 3 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 4 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DC432)
Rotation 0 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E)
Rotation 1 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E)
Rotation 2 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E)
Rotation 3 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 4 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)

There is a short burst of floppy drive reads while the information above is written to the screen, then the drive activity stops and the system freezes.

Note: I may have some '8's and 'B's muddled - the TV display is not brilliant.

Hope this helps

BlueAchenar · 20 January 2009, 23:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

Hi BlueAchenar,

Completed the test on my ESCOM A1200 (without acceleration):

AleWarp v0.1 by BlueAchenar (Jan 2009)

Buffer at 000D4BC0
Rotation 0 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 1 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 2 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 3 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 4 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DC432)
Rotation 0 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E)
Rotation 1 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E)
Rotation 2 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E)
Rotation 3 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)
Rotation 4 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8)

There is a short burst of floppy drive reads while the information above is written to the screen, then the drive activity stops and the system freezes.

Note: I may have some '8's and 'B's muddled - the TV display is not brilliant.

Hope this helps

Thanks prowler, it helps. As soon as the DmaBlk interrupt is active, the application will read just fine on your computer (at least until it freezes

). I need to rest my head a little. Here's the code:

prowler · 20 January 2009, 23:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

Thanks prowler, it helps. As soon as the DmaBlk interrupt is active, the application will read just fine on your computer (at least until it freezes

).

You're welcome, mate.

BTW, any recommendations for RTFMing to install my PCMCIA to SD adapter and SD card to test your driver? Or is the necessary info in the Aminet archives I downloaded? (I haven't looked yet.

)

BlueAchenar · 20 January 2009, 23:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

You're welcome, mate.

BTW, any recommendations for RTFMing to install my PCMCIA to SD adapter and SD card to test your driver? Or is the necessary info in the Aminet archives I downloaded? (I haven't looked yet.

)

Solved the freezing problem. Only the interrupt remains and the app will be functional. Needless to say I haven't rested much yet.

Hummm, let's see if I remember:

- insert lines for cardpatch and cardreset in your startup-sequence (see the docs)
- copy compactflash.device to DEVS: and CF0 to.... somewhere I can't remember (StorageDevices?)
- copy fat95 to L:

That's pretty much it

Edit: Got an incomplete image (due to the missing interrupt) but it is still 5MB in size

Retro-Nerd · 21 January 2009, 00:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

Solved the freezing problem. Only the interrupt remains and the app will be functional. Needless to say I haven't rested much yet.

Hummm, let's see if I remember:

- insert lines for cardpatch and cardreset in your startup-sequence (see the docs)
- copy compactflash.device to DEVS: and CF0 to.... somewhere I can't remember (StorageDevices?)
- copy fat95 to L:

That's pretty much it

Devs/Dosdrivers

prowler · 21 January 2009, 00:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

Solved the freezing problem. Only the interrupt remains and the app will be functional. Needless to say I haven't rested much yet.

Hummm, let's see if I remember:

- insert lines for cardpatch and cardreset in your startup-sequence (see the docs)
- copy compactflash.device to DEVS: and CF0 to.... somewhere I can't remember (StorageDevices?)
- copy fat95 to L:

That's pretty much it

Edit: Got an incomplete image (due to the missing interrupt) but it is still 5MB in size

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Devs/Dosdrivers

Thanks BlueAchenar and Retro!

That should get me set up.

@BlueAchenar:
If you can get a working version of this program out and you require dumps to be uploaded, what's the problem with this that you mentioned earlier? (See your post #179)

BlueAchenar · 21 January 2009, 00:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

Thanks BlueAchenar and Retro!

That should get me set up.

@BlueAchenar:
If you can get a working version of this program out and you require dumps to be uploaded, what's the problem with this that you mentioned earlier? (See your post #179)

Oh. nothing serious. It's just that the raw image will be 20MB or something in size. But if I get it working (I already did, but am not sure how and turned everything black in the process, kind of like the CAPS tools), I'll image some disks here.

Supamax · 21 January 2009, 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

Oh. nothing serious. It's just that the raw image will be 20MB or something in size. But if I get it working (I already did, but am not sure how and turned everything black in the process, kind of like the CAPS tools), I'll image some disks here.

20 MB

I Hope (don't get upset, I'm getting boring, I know) you'll include the "(extended) adf export" command

BlueAchenar · 21 January 2009, 00:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supamax

20 MB

I Hope (don't get upset, I'm getting boring, I know) you'll include the "(extended) adf export" command

I need that XXXL image before I include anything at all besides reading raw images.

Supamax · 21 January 2009, 00:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

I need that XXXL image before I include anything at all besides reading raw images.

I know, I know

. Just remember it as one of the last options to add

P.S. let me know when you have a stable/fast enough version to test on my A600. Or can I try it now? I fear it will give me the same results as for prowler etc.

BlueAchenar · 21 January 2009, 01:44

Who wants to have some ale?

This one should work and be stable. I had a minor setback though with the DMA mode. I'm not getting the precision I wanted. Might also implement reading by polling as an option.

Supamax · 21 January 2009, 01:57

Hi BlueAchenar,

I'm running it - Hooray! - (dumping the image of a floppy - Relokick 1.4a) on my A600.
It seems to work.
The reading is not so slow. Now it's at track 25. I estimate around 4-5 minutes.
The only strange thing (for now) is that it goes "hiccups", not continuously. It reads, then stops for a fraction of time, then reads again, and so on

EDIT: it finished correctly. The only issue (for now) is the disk drive led which remains on.

BlueAchenar · 21 January 2009, 02:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supamax

Hi BlueAchenar,

I'm running it - Hooray! - (dumping the image of a floppy - Relokick 1.4a) on my A600.
It seems to work.
The reading is not so slow. Now it's at track 25. I estimate around 3-4 minutes.
The only strange thing (for now) is that it goes "hiccups", not continuously. It reads, then stops for a fraction of time, then reads again, and so on

This version is not final, keep that in mind.

The hiccups is something I must fine tune yet, but don't worry, anything that could damage your drive is prevented in the code. Just be sure not to read beyond cylinder 81 if your drive doesn't support it. Tracks 162 to 165. These are disabled by default.

Edit: And it should be written in the window. It stops a while to empty the memory buffer to the destination file.

Supamax · 21 January 2009, 02:04

Just FYI, at the end of the dump:
- disk drive led remains on
- OS will not recognize any more disk changes, until Amiga reset

Do you want image.ale uploaded (.rar compressed) to the Zone?

Better: the .ale AND the .adf files (so you can do comparisons/analysis) ?

prowler · 21 January 2009, 02:10

Hi BlueAchenar,

Looks like this version is working, mate!

I typed alewarp image at the CLI prompt.

Program imaged track 0, side 0 to track 79, side 1 (158 tracks)

Created image.ale file (9,878,476 bytes) - No test done on this.

Terminated normally.

Mouse was frozen during disk reads, but active during writes.

Disk in df0: was AMI-PC LINKUP.

Well done!

prowler

BlueAchenar · 21 January 2009, 02:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supamax

Just FYI, at the end of the dump:
- disk drive led remains on
- OS will not recognize any more disk changes, until Amiga reset

Do you want image.ale uploaded (.rar compressed) to the Zone?

Better: the .ale AND the .adf files (so you can do comparisons/analysis) ?

Thanks. That would be great!

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

Hi BlueAchenar,

Looks like this version is working, mate!

I typed alewarp image at the CLI prompt.

Program imaged track 0, side 0 to track 79, side 1 (158 tracks)

Created image.ale file (9,878,476 bytes) - No test done on this.

Terminated normally.

Mouse was frozen during disk reads, but active during writes.

Disk in df0: was AMI-PC LINKUP.

Well done!

prowler

You and the frozen mice!

Thanks prowler.

If you can also upload an archive that would be great. I'll image the Turrican II disk on my side to have a non-amigados disk.

Supamax · 21 January 2009, 02:15

Uploaded to the Zone!

my image.ale (ADOS disk - no error tracks) is 9.736.376 bytes.
I included the correspondig .adf into the .rar file

Cheers!
Massimo

Supamax · 21 January 2009, 02:17

Strange that prowler and I got 2 different file sizes, if the floppies we used are ADOS...

There's probably some fine-tuning needed

EDIT: I know, I know, this version is not final! Just wondering...

prowler · 21 January 2009, 02:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueAchenar

Thanks prowler.

If you can also upload an archive that would be great. I'll image the Turrican II disk on my side to have a non-amigados disk.

Would you like both the image.ale file and an image.adf too? Are both useful?

BlueAchenar · 21 January 2009, 02:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler

Would you like both the image.ale file and an image.adf too? Are both useful?

Yes they are. The adf can be used for reference.

I'm examining supamax's dump with an hex editor right now.

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20 January 2009, 23:34	#201
prowler Global Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sidcup, England Posts: 10,300	Hi BlueAchenar, Completed the test on my ESCOM A1200 (without acceleration): AleWarp v0.1 by BlueAchenar (Jan 2009) Buffer at 000D4BC0 Rotation 0 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8) Rotation 1 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8) Rotation 2 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8) Rotation 3 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8) Rotation 4 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DC432) Rotation 0 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E) Rotation 1 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E) Rotation 2 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCB8E) Rotation 3 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8) Rotation 4 offset: 32744 (000D4BC0 to 000DCBA8) There is a short burst of floppy drive reads while the information above is written to the screen, then the drive activity stops and the system freezes. Note: I may have some '8's and 'B's muddled - the TV display is not brilliant. Hope this helps

21 January 2009, 01:57	#212
Supamax Da Digger :) Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Monza, Italy Posts: 2,822	Hi BlueAchenar, I'm running it - Hooray! - (dumping the image of a floppy - Relokick 1.4a) on my A600. It seems to work. The reading is not so slow. Now it's at track 25. I estimate around 4-5 minutes. The only strange thing (for now) is that it goes "hiccups", not continuously. It reads, then stops for a fraction of time, then reads again, and so on EDIT: it finished correctly. The only issue (for now) is the disk drive led which remains on.

21 January 2009, 02:04	#214
Supamax Da Digger :) Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Monza, Italy Posts: 2,822	Just FYI, at the end of the dump: - disk drive led remains on - OS will not recognize any more disk changes, until Amiga reset Do you want image.ale uploaded (.rar compressed) to the Zone? Better: the .ale AND the .adf files (so you can do comparisons/analysis) ?

21 January 2009, 02:10	#215
prowler Global Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sidcup, England Posts: 10,300	Hi BlueAchenar, Looks like this version is working, mate! I typed alewarp image at the CLI prompt. Program imaged track 0, side 0 to track 79, side 1 (158 tracks) Created image.ale file (9,878,476 bytes) - No test done on this. Terminated normally. Mouse was frozen during disk reads, but active during writes. Disk in df0: was AMI-PC LINKUP. Well done! prowler

21 January 2009, 02:15	#217
Supamax Da Digger :) Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Monza, Italy Posts: 2,822	Uploaded to the Zone! my image.ale (ADOS disk - no error tracks) is 9.736.376 bytes. I included the correspondig .adf into the .rar file Cheers! Massimo

21 January 2009, 02:17	#218
Supamax Da Digger :) Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Monza, Italy Posts: 2,822	Strange that prowler and I got 2 different file sizes, if the floppies we used are ADOS... There's probably some fine-tuning needed EDIT: I know, I know, this version is not final! Just wondering...

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