Wizardry 5 causes a "Reason:Not all sector data was transferred by DMA (Mem->FD)" error

[davemoore22]

Hello,

so I'm running Tsugaru on Linux (Ubuntu 22 - thank you for the precompiled binary). I'm trying to run Wizardry V with the GUI. I have put the ISO file into CD, and I create a blank floppy (1.2 MB) and put it into FD0. For Wizardry V you need to create a scenario disk before playing, so I try that option, and there is a Japanese error message which translates to something like unable to format a scenario disk (see screenshot).

But I also get this error:

VM Aborted!
Device:FDC
Reason:Not all sector data was transferred by DMA (Mem->FD).
Towns TIME (Nano-Seconds): 126014439429
CS:EIP=0262:0000088F  LINEAR:00002EAF  EFLAGS=00000212  CPL=00
EAX=00000002  EBX=00000080  ECX=000C0D47  EDX=0000012C
ESI=00000466  EDI=000004C1  EBP=00000B8C  ESP=00000B80
CS=0262(LIN:00002620)  DS=07AF(LIN:00007AF0)  ES=0000(LIN:00000000)  
FS=0000(LIN:00000000)  GS=0000(LIN:00000000)  SS=0988(LIN:00009880)  
CR0=00000000  CR1=00000000  CR2=00000000  CR3=00000001
CF0  PF0  AF1  ZF0  SF0  TF0  IF1  DF0  OF0  IOPL00  NT0  RF0  VM0  AC0
Default Operand Size=16  Default Address Size=16  Stack Address Size=16
SS+00000000:1A 06 4A 03 F1 00 C0 00 62 02 56 00 86 00 20 06 
SS+00000010:02 00 01 00 01 00 16 8E 01 00 0C 00 E2 5E 00 00 
0262:0000088F 7418                      JE      000008A9

And I can't proceed any further.

[captainys]

Thank you for reporting it! I've confirmed the DMA failure. I'll look into it.

[captainys]

I've confirmed it was a media-type identification issue. I think I fixed it. Are you able to build from the source? I can at least start the game with the one I've just pushed. By the way, since Wizardry 5 uses a 256 bytes per sector format, .BIN format does not work. You need to use .D77 disk image.

[davemoore22]

Yes, I'll rebuild from source this evening and try again. Thank you!

[davemoore22]

I can confirm that worked, thank you! Scenario Disk (a D77 disk image) written successfully.

Thank you so much.

[davemoore22]

Oh, spoke a bit too soon. It can write and create a Scenario Disk from a blank d77 format 1.2 disk image, and using that the game can start, but if you reset the VM and load Wizardry 5 again, the Scenario Disk you've just created is unreadable.

I've uploaded the Scenario Disk I created here:

https://tempfile.io/en/VkJtb1PLSFTPRxQ/file

[captainys]

I think this time I really fixed it. Can you try the one I've just pushed?

[davemoore22]

Yes, it did! thank you.

Incidentally, on the command line version, what's the key press to open the Console?

[captainys]

Are you double-clicking to start the CUI version? You are supposed to start it from Terminal, if you are talking about the command window by Console. If you are looking for a key to pause, by default it is Scroll Lock.

[davemoore22]

Ah! yes, hadn't realised it was accepting input into the native terminal I was running it from. Thank you! Got it. Once again, many thanks

[captainys]

Sure. Thank you for using Tsugaru and preserving the heritage of FM TOWNS!