DiskImage Guru Meditation

[eva]

Hi! Does anybody have troubles with DiskImage? I have installed the version by Fredrik Wikstrom: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage.m68k-aos and every time I try either MountDiskImage from CLI or System/DiskImageGUI, when trying to mount an ADF disk it crashes. I am using WB3.1.

The original tools by Thore Böckelmann http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage mount the ADF files fine. I guess I could just use Thore's version but I was wondering why Fredrik does not work.

The error is #80000004 - it does not matter whether it's an ISO file or an ADF. I have tested both to see if they mount.

[Leffmann]

That's an illegal instruction exception. You typically get this if your software, or some other component it depends on, requires a higher CPU.

It could also be that the program file has been damaged, the usual cause being a bad MaxTransfer value in the hard drive partitioning settings, resulting in files getting damaged when copied to the drive.

[eva]

I have reinstalled it using the installer and now I get #80000006. It is supposed to work on a 68020 CPU and I have one. The same sort of crashes occur both with the GUI and the CLI.

[Leffmann]

That second exception is a clear indication that the file is damaged. Did you set MaxTransfer to 0x1FE00 during partitioning?

[eva]

I have just checked with HDToolBox. Yep, it's set to 0x1fe00.

[Leffmann]

Sorry, no idea what's causing it then.

[eva]

Thank you Leffmann! For completeness:

• The version by Fredrik Wikstrom: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage.m68k-aos seems to be broken as this thread describes.
• The version by Thore Böckelmann: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage has some drivers in DOSDrivers/ that do not seem to work - the ADF mounts but is seen as NODOS.

I have found a workaround by copying the devices from Fredrik Wikstrom's package:

makedir Devs:DOSDrivers
copy Devs/DOSDrivers/I#? Devs:DOSDrivers/

and then copied the Thore Böckelmann's version tools copied to C:

copy CreateImage C:
copy DiskImageCtrl C:

and the diskimage.device from Thore Böckelmann's version to DEVS:

copy diskimage.device DEVS:

along with zlib.library to LIBS:

copy zlib.library LIBS:

After that, I used DiskImageCtrl to mount the ADF and ISO files as per the documentation.

The result is that both ISO and ADF files can be mounted properly.