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   I am Rob to All   
   Re: Unable to load ATINIT   
   16 Apr 23 23:28:10   
   
   From: gids.rs@sasktel.net   
      
   > I had a disk image I was working with, and everything worked fine. Then one   
   day I got the Unable to load ATINIT error on booting it with Prodos 8, 2.4.2.   
   I then put Prodos 2.03 on it, and same thing. The only thing I could do to fix   
   it was to open    
   Ciderpress, copy all the files, and move them to a new image.    
   >    
   > No configurations were changed, both KEGS and GSplus did the same thing,   
   it's just really weird. What would cause that?   
      
      
   On Prodos v2.4.2, I isolated the error to the GetInfo call at $2390, where the   
   error returned is compared with #$46.  This is a file not found error, but   
   instead I think I was getting a "Volume not Found" error, which is #$45 and   
   thus causes the "Unable    
   to load ATINIT" error.   
      
   I can't remember what I isolated to the cause of it as.  I may have deleted a   
   file, then recovered it.  But the recovery didn't update the file count   
   correctly, which causes a volume error.   
      
   Boot from your good disk now, and insert the bad disk into Slot #7, drive #2.    
   Type "BLOAD /volumename,TDIR,A$2000" replacing volume name with the name of   
   the volume.  Then do a CALL -151.  And enter:  2025 .   
      
   This will give you the file count in hex.  Convert to decimal and count the   
   actual number of files on the disk.  They should match.   
      
   Or now that you created a new disk, and if you haven't saved anything to it   
   yet, you can do the same BLOAD and check memory address 2025.   They should   
   match.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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