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LT Kernal Block Free

Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:16 am
by hendrb01
Are you running your IMAGE BBS 1.2 on a LT Kernel or Read Admiral HyperDrive?

Are the blocks free on all your LUs displaying 65525?

If you have Lt.Kernal DOS 7.2 or higher (You do not need to worry about this with he Rear Admiral HyperDrive. You can make a simple change to your IM file to fix this.

Load your IM file.

[bd] = LU of your boot drive.
[dv] = device # of your LT Kernal/Rear Admiral HyperDrive

load"[lu]im",[dv]

List line 1081

LIST 1081

You should see this somewhere in the line.

on-(dv%<>0)goto1083

Change the (ZERO) in the line to match the device # of your LT. Kernel. For example, if your LT. Kernel is configured as device # 9, the line will read like this.

Image BBS blocks free fix.jpg
Image BBS blocks free fix.jpg (304.35 KiB) Viewed 6235 times

on-(dv%<>9goto1083

Load Image 1.2, and your blocks free should now be displaying properly.

Information provided by the late Fred Dart of New Image Software.
Special thanks to X-Tec of Commodore Image BBS (cib.dyndns.org 6400) for providing the information.