#: 7439 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    16-Oct-90  20:05:52
Sb: #Disk ID change
Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
To: all


I have a bunch of binary floppy disk images out on my hard disk.  I can use
FHL's "fu" program to write one of these disk images out to a floppy disk -
this works just fine.

I then changed my ramdisk to be the same size as the floppy disk.  I then used
"fu" to copy the floppy image out to the ramdisk.  When I attempt a dir or chd
to the ramdisk I get this nifty message:  "Error #000:251  (E$DIDC) Disk ID
change.  RBF copies the disk ID number (from sector zero) into the path
descriptor of each path when it is opened.  If this does not agree with the
driver's current disk ID, this error is returned.  The driver updates the
current disk ID only when sector zero is read; it is therefore possible to swap
disks without RBF noticing.  This check helps to prevent that possibility."

This is ok, but I just wrote a new image to the ramdisk on purpose!  How do I
get RBF to temporarily ignore this "disk ID change?"



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