Hi All,
       This is anothe message from the CBM echo that may or may not
msake it into Australia..  (only of interest to QWKRR users with FDxx
drives).


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Date : 01-30-94      Time : 13:32    Status : Public - Unread
From : Phil Heberer                  Subj   : FD4000 QWKRR Kludge
To   : Gaelyne Moranec               Area   : Commodore

Salutations Gaelyne,

 GM> PH> problems.  Evidently the FD doesn't
 GM> PH> find something it needs when it
 GM> PH> initializes, and defaults to 1581 mode.
 GM> Interesting.  So far this is the only program I've had any
 GM> problems with, but I did try your method of reinserting
 GM> the disk to no avail.

After playing with QWKRR V4.1 half the night, I've found a kludge that
works in a fashion.  Since QWKRR thinks the FD is a 1581, I tricked it
into thinking a 3.2 meg native partition was a 1581 like I have to do
with Superbase.  On your FD Utilities disk that came with your disk is
a program called 1581SUB (described on page 95, Appendix A of the
manual).  1581SUB needs a 3.2 meg disk to work, and 1541SUB needs at
least a 1.6 meg disk to work.  Anyway, run whichever proggy you choose
on a freshly formatted disk of the required size.  Whatever you choose
for the subpartition name, you will also need to set in the QPX
PATH$/PRTH$.  Down around line 880 of QPX, you will also need to use
the example of booting QWKRR from a CMD device with a "CP1" and
"CD//subname" before the RUN "QWKRR*",u(d).

You will need to rego QWKRR in a root directory, then move it to the
subpartition.  If you have QWK.DEFAULTS already established, you can
either scratch it, or select "N" to use QWKRR defaults question in QPX.
When the drive selection screen comes up, start with (U) drive first,
and rotate through (D)rive until you get to your FD device nr.  The
screen will show it as 1581, and the disk name will show the two letter
ID then 2A and maybe some garbage.  Select (Q)uit anyway, and it
*should* come back with the subpartition name as the disk name (mine
does).  Do this same thing with (R)eply drive, (T)aglines drive, then
(M)essages drive.  After QWKRR is up and running, and has indexed the
messages, you can go to Options and save your defaults.

This kludge doesn't allow using paths for taglines, replies, etc., but
it WILL allow the full useage of all the blocks in the native
partition.  I'll play with it some more and see if I can find any
better clues why QWKRR doesn't recognize the FD.  I don't know how Rod
is determining the drive type, but if he's getting the info from the
disk BAM header instead of a Memory Read, that may be where the values
above are coming from.

... * DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND - the fault is with reality.
~~~ QWKRR128 V4.1 [R]

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