Fiddling with OS3.9

[quenthal]

Well, in my new adventure in patching and improving(?) AmigaOS3.9 I've fumbled in to few issues (previous was playing with requesters).

So, if someone can help me, here it goes:

1) "BootCacheCDFS - Loads CacheCDFS reset resident for JumpStart" (taken from OS3.9 introduction) - does this utilitity any fancy things?

2) I've noticed on some pages about ram-handler 51.6 - could anyone provide me one?

Well, here is for starters.. :lol:

[quenthal]

Well, one more:

3) How to prevent shell-window opening always as width as screen?

[AmigaMance]

2) I've noticed on some pages about ram-handler 51.6 - could anyone provide me one?

Wow!! I'm VERY interested about it in case that you will find it, but are you sure that it is 68k and not part of the OS4?

3) How to prevent shell-window opening always as width as screen

newshell con://x//example
 Replace x with the width of the shell window in pixels.

[quenthal]

Thanks, just after I typed I remembered to check out the icon of shell... :-)

Make a google for ram-handler 51.6 and it pops out at CoyoteFlux (CoyoteFlash). Maybe it is available only with OS4, but that screenshot would make me think that it is 68k. Maybe it is both, which would mean that it is not and never will be available for 3.x.

[quenthal]

Ok, in my adventure I turned new chapter, and decided to listen to old cds in background.

*crash*

Unit 1
The program "CyberstormPPC_Removable" or the unit is buggy.
The sc_Length dma transfer length is smaller then the requested transfer length. This may be caused by a wrong length in CMD[] or by a unit firmware problem.

CMD[]=Cmd[9=0x280000000000100000000
Length=2048 Skipped Length=2121

more info from serial sushi from aminet blah blah

support@phase5.de

Ok, I pressed Ok, it gave same error, changing only that Skipped Length-part to bigger number. After few okays, everything continued normally, and I could access to drive with PlayCD.

So, in a nutshell, the problem is following: When I insert audiocd in my drive, mentioned error occurs. This happens only with audiocds.

This problems happens, even if I don't have CD0 mounted. First spin the drive takes after inserting disc - error!

If I click Ok enough, it seemingly work.

If I boot my machine with audiocd in it, there is no problems.

I've tried lowering down all the possible values from Cyberstorms bootmenu. As it seems that .info or icons can also often cause problems, I'm not using PNG icons with CDDA/def_disk/def_cd0. I tried even without def-icons.

I'm afraid that my configuration is the reason (Acard UWSCSI-IDE bridge with HP CDRW-drive). However, if this is more generic problem, maye it can be fixed?

[quenthal]

Fixed. The problem was too old IDE CD-Rom (HP SureStore CD-RW 8100+ from 1998 or smthing), that didn't understand all the commands thru UWSCSI-IDE-bridge. I changed to newer LiteOn-drive and problem solved.  :-)

Still wondering what that BootCacheCDFS might make possible... Booting from CD?

[Chain]

3) How to prevent shell-window opening always as width as screen?

make new tooltype in shell icon like:

CON:XSTART/YSTART/WIDTH/HEIGHT/WINDOW/CLOSE

(dunno if its correct syntax, someone correct me if im wrong)

[Matt_H]

I've never heard of this BootCacheCDFS. Where did you read about it?

[quenthal]

Matt_H wrote:
I've never heard of this BootCacheCDFS. Where did you read about it?

http://www.haage-partner.de/aos39/aos39features-e.htm

Hmm.. this also answered partially my own question  :lol: