Laurens, thanks for the info. Except for that width80, that doesn't work, but your mail gave me an idea: Maibe that default 32 column screen wasn't screen 0 anyway because I couldn't set it to 80 columns with width 80, it gave a syntax error. Yes, that was the trick: in Basic screen 0 and I had straight away a 80 column screen! I saved the settings with set screen and after a Reset, it came back the right way. Hapzee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurens Holst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 6:59 PM Subject: Re: harddisk read only?
> > Does anybody has a way to tell what info is stored in the clock chip? > > The info stored in the clock chip is time/date, adjust (e.g. vdp(19)/set > adjust), some screen mode related stuff using set screen, like screen mode > (0/1), screen width, key status (key on/off) and I believe also the color > settings. Furthermore you can also set one of the following three settings: > title screen color & text (set title), the logon password (set password), > and erm... erm... I forgot the third ^_^. > > Aside from that there is still a very little room left for other > information, it isn't much though. Some hardware and a few games use it.... > Actually the only hardware I know is the Novaxis, I've had a Bert interface > and I wasn't aware it used that space... My previous system's battery has > been empty for a long time (hence it always started in 40-column mode - I > used bascom width 80 in my autoexec.bat), but I haven't had any problems > with my harddisks back then (well, at least not related to the clock chip > thing). > > I also know of some games which use it - although I don't think I can name > one of those right now, I don't remember very well. > > > > I still am unable to set the default screen width to 80 colums. > > The problems indeed were caused by dropped out batteries after coming home > > from a fair. > > As I said above, that is also stored in the clock chip, so it's logical that > setting gets erased when the clock chip's ram is cleared. I understand it is > an MSX with seperate batteries? I've got an MSX 2+ (Sanyo Wavy FD) which > also has that... Anyways, just, make sure the batteries are full and in > place (or if you have a nonremovable internal accu - replace it), then make > the settings you want in basic, for example type WIDTH 80 to select a screen > width of 80, and then SET SCREEN to permanently save that setting. > > > > As a result of all this I also lost contents of a complete harddisk. I > would > > like to prevent this on my other harddisks and ZIPs. > > It seems highly unlikely that you lost the contents of an entire hard disk ( > or even that you lost anything at all, aside from some screen settings) > because the clock chip's sram got erased. It's got fairly little to do with > eachother. True, the Novaxis interface uses that sram, but although I still > don't know exactly what it saves in there, it can't possible be vital > information which, when corrupted, causes a harddisk failure. It won't > contain information vital enough to corrupt your data either, it's too > vurnerable a spot for that. Essential information is stored on the harddisk > itself. > > A more likely cause for that harddisk to fail is because you -for example- > dropped it, or that you touched it with statically charged hands (because > you removed the static from your monitor), or that you tried to connect the > power connector upside down, or that the harddisk's lifetime was simply worn > out. All those were situations I encountered in my life as a > harddisk's-worst-nightmare, but I've never seen software which *destroyed* a > harddisk, and it's very very very hard (if not impossible) to do that > either. > > > ~Grauw > > > -- > For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html > > ================================================================ > Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. > Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
