Atari 800XL => ERROR- 130

[spencerhm]

Got the 800XL with two 1050 drives; the console works fine, and is very clean; ran the built-in tests and they all passed. Found the manuals online and I learned how to change drive numbers, but didn't see anything on error codes. I do not have the Atari DOS diskette that came with the unit, but found a .BAS program to format diskettes. Not sure if it properly formatted the diskette or not because I tried to save a BASIC one line program to the diskette and it reports: => ERROR- 130.

I type: => SAVE "D1:MYFILE.BAS" and keep getting the "ERROR- 130" message. Any help would be appreciated as to what this error means. And if the drive needs to be re-aligned or the speed set correctly is there any program/documentation on how to do this?

 

Both drives were surprisingly clean; blew the drives out and hardly nothing came out; clean the heads. Not a hardware tech, so any ideas will be great!

Edited August 23, 2016 by spencerhm

[Kyle22]

Error - 130 means that there is no such device. You need a DOS loaded to provide the D: handler for the drive to be useful.

 

You may write BASIC code to access sectors without DOS. Look at $300 here: http://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/memorymap.php

You can use your browser's search (in current page) function to lookup DDEVIC. That's where the fun stuff is. Then call SIOV $E459.

In BASIC, it would be X=USR(ADR("hLYd")) with the h and d in lowercase, and the d is also inverse.

[Fuji-Man]

130 = Non-existant device. http://page6.org/archive/issue_22/page_10.htm

 

you need to boot from a bootable diskette, or an disk image in a drive emulator (APE,Aspeqt, Atari 800xldj)

 

You can download these from AtariMax, but you must have a SIO2PC cable or equivalent.

 

Or you can have someone send you a few DOS disks...

 

FujiMan

[spencerhm]

Thanks Kyle22 and Fuji-Man!

 

I bought a copy of Atari DOS 2.5 from ebay and will give it a try when it comes. I found it in an ATR file from Atarimania but didn't have any luck creating disks from the image(s). I'll create a new post on that topic.

[Mclaneinc]

All you need to do is when you get DOS 2.5 boot it up without BASIC or if BASIC is on then just type DOS at the prompt.

 

DOS should load and then if you want to format disks to save your own stuff to ie basic programs etc choose I from the DOS menu, swap the disk for a blank one, choose D1: as the drive and Y to confim the format, after that use option H to write dos files out and there you have a working floppy to save stuff to.

 

As long as the 1st drive is set to D1: and other drives are on an incremented number you should be 100% ok...#

 

Have fun and ask away..

Edited August 24, 2016 by Mclaneinc