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barotto / IBMulator

The IBM PS/1 emulator.
https://barotto.github.io/IBMulator
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Problems with defining custom hard drive. #54

Closed misterspock1 closed 3 years ago

misterspock1 commented 3 years ago

Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I created an image with CHS 1024/16/62 edited the ini file with the information, named the file hdd-type47.img, even tried placing it in the zip file with the other hard drive images...

Log file says this: Creating new image file 'D:\IBM\PS1\hdd-type47.img' [ERR0] hdd | Unable to create the image file [ERR0] prg | exception caught during initialization! giving up :( [INF0] prg | Program stop

ini section: type=47 path=D:\IBM\PS1\hdd-type47.img readonly=no save=yes cylinders=1024 heads=16 sectors=62 seek_max=auto seek_trk=auto rot_speed=auto interleave=auto

Also tried using the term: type=custom

barotto commented 3 years ago

Your ini file seems correct.

The Unable to create the image file message means that IBMulator has encoutered a problem while trying to physically create the hdd-type47.img file on drive D.

This is a file system error. It happens using std::ofstream to create the file or while trying to write to it. At this point no other info are available. Maybe a problem with directory/file permissions? Not enough space left?

Try to create the image in the user directory, removing the D:\IBM\PS1\ part. See if that works. Then try to move the image in D:\IBM\PS1\ and see if it can be used.

misterspock1 commented 3 years ago

After receiving your response I realized I mistyped the directory name! Fixed and all is working well, now! Thank you!

barotto commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your feedback. This is actually an error condition that can be detected during init. I'll try to improve the error messages.