Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Line A and Hard Disks Keywords: No connection, of course :-) Message-ID: <1971@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 21 Sep 88 09:13:24 GMT Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 44 I was poking around in Neochrome the other day (is that illegal?) and found some more negative Line A offsets. Screen width -$2B4 # Note: The mouse pointer is clipped by these Screen height -$2B2 Colours -$29A Mouse X -$258 # These change even when mouse cursor is disabled Mouse Y -$25A Since they are in Neochrome and work with both ROM 1.00 and 1.02 then I assume they are officially supported. Thanks to his involvement with the BIOS Dave Staugas seems to be in a rather privileged position to know all this sort of stuff. Would Atari care to comment on these locations? Now a different topic. I have a Xebec S1410A SASI controller board connected to a Hitachi DK511 40MB disk drive. When I do a system reset the heads take quite a time (and small steps) to get back to the boot partition C. If I have accessed partion E or F the ST times out and I have to press reset again. There is no problem going from F to C during normal usage only at reset and I know from experimentation that the problem does not involve the ST hardware or host card. Is this just a quirk of the Xebec that I have to live with or does someone know of a solution? _____________________________________________________________________________ / DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own \ ! ! ! "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of ! ! being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with ! ! being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being ! ! told that I am!" - Monty Python ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh ! ! Scotland ! \_____________________________________________________________________________/