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Chapter 3 Backing Up Your Drive with the Mirror This chapter is for those users who have a Corvus Mirror (eithe built-in or add-on) with their Cor

)ther end into the VIDEO IN jack on the back panel of the Corvus ::frive. Connect one end of the other phono connector cable into the JIDEO IN ja

B: BACKUP-Pressing B for the BACKUP option starts the Mirror option for recording an image (a copy of all or part of the Corvus hard disk) on the VCR

Using the Mirror to Backup Your Entire Corvus Disk 1. First, make sure the Corvus Mirror and the VCR are properly connected. Boot your compu

6. It is strongly recommended that you complete the tape header information. The tape header is information that is written at the beginning of the b

11. Make sure the VCR is on, and the video cassette is loaded properly. Write down the VCR counter number on a piece of paper and save

How to Backup Single Virtual Drives on the Corvus Disk 1. Boot your computer system with the CP/M diskette, and thenrun the correct CLINK program. 2.

TABLE 1-REFERENCE TABLE FOR BLOCK NUMBER/ LENGTH 6 MB Drive with CLlNK2 Program Drive C: D: Starting Disk Block # 580 5908 Number of Blocks in Drive

7. The Mirror now requests the information for the header block The screen displays: I ---ENTER TAPE FILE HEADER INFORMATION ---DATE: __ 8. Type 4/18

13. Make sure the VCR is on, and the video cassette is loaded properly. Write down the VCR counter number on a piece of paper .and sa

3. Load the Mirror program from the CORVUS UTILITIES VOL. 1 diskette in Drive B by typing MIRROR and pressing <RETURN>. The screen displays: 4.

2. Your computer should be operating under CP/M. The Corvus drive should be on the Corvus link established. The Mirror and VCR hardware should

How to Use the Restore Option on the Mirror 1. Connect the Corvus Mirror and VCR hardware. Boot YOl computer system with the CPIM diskette,

7. Enter the same number of blocks that you used for Backup (from Table 1). The screen displays: CORVUS DRIVE # (1-4) ? _ 8. Press 1. The screen no

Chapter 4 Printing Multiple Files It is desirable, in some applications, to print more than one file at a time. Corvus has implemented this by provi

2. Press I to initialize the pipes area. The screen displays: DEFAULT PARAMETERS STARTING BLOCK: 64 BLOCK LENGTH: 500 USE DEFAULT PARAMETERS? (YIN)

How to Send a File to a Pipe To send a file to a pipe, the file must already exist on your Corvw disk drive, or on the floppy diskettes. 1. Insert the

INDEX.DOC is the name of the file you want to send. B: is the drive It resides on. 5. Press M for message. The screen displays: M(essage: 6. Type, T

8. Press a to quit. The screen displays: SPOOL PARAMETERS P(ipe name: PRINTER F(ile name:B:INDEX.DOC M (essage: This is a test file. T(ype of File:

Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction ... 1 Chapter 2. Reviewing Some Basic Points About Your System . 3 Start

Type SPOOL and press <RETURN>. The screen displays: Spooler [2.0]: S(pool D(espool L(ist Q(uit: _ 2. Press D for DC espool. The screen displ

next pipe. The screen displays: This procedure will print all pipes named PRINTER. 6. When you press any key, the computer returns to the start of

2. Press C for Clear. The screen displays: Clearing Pipes area: Starting Block: 0 Block Length: 500 Continue? (YIN) _ 3. Press Y. The screen disp

What Is In the Pipes? It is possible to find out what pipes you have spooled to in the following way: 1. Insert the CORVUS UTILITIES VOL.

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Chapter 5 Troubleshooting Your Corvus Drive The Corvus disk system is designed to provide years of problem· free use. At times, however, it may experi

B. FAULT AND BUSY LIGHTS COME ON AFTER POWER UP SEQUENCE. BUSY LIGHT FLASHES FOR A WHILE, THEN BOTH LIGHTS STAY ON. 32 7. Toggle Reset Switch on

33 code program from directoll (see Step 13 above). Afte updating controller code, tun format switch off (to the left) . See Section 6 of this manua

C. BACKUP OR RESTORE FUNCTION SHOWS DISK ERROR. D. VERIFY FUNCTION INDICATES BLOCK(S) NEEDING RETRY. E. RESTORE FUNCTION INDICATES BLOCK(S) NEEDING R

G. WHEN TRYING A RESTORE, VERIFY OR IDENTIFY OPTION ON THE MIRROR PROGRAM, THE ERROR MESSAGE "IMAGE NOT FOUND" OR "MIRROR ERROR 7&

~PPENDIX A. List of Common CP/M Extensions ... 45 ~PPENDIX B. Corvus Disk Error Codes ... 47 ~PPENDIX C. Description of

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Chapter 6 Diagnostic Utilities for Your Corvus Drive Corvus Systems has produced a special diagnostics program-CDIAGNOS - to allow you to perform c

4. To use CDIAGNOS, press the number for the task and follow the directions. If you wish to exit CDIAGNOS and return to CP/M, press Q when prompted

A check of the Corvus disk is performed. After several minutes, the screen displays: NO BAD SECTORS FOUND!! TASK (0 TO LIST) : _ If the Disk For

NOTE: You may have different numbers, but the controller code version should be 17.3 or later. 4. HEAD SERVO CHECK Press 4 and the screen displays:

Type the controller code file name listed in the Directory of thl CORVUS UTILITIES diskettes; for example, type CORVB173.CLF and press <RETURN&

Press < RETURN >. The screen displays: SECTOR INTERLEAVING SPEC. =-12 PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE NOTE: The Sector Interleaving Spec{ification) is

Press S if you wish to change the spared track table. Spared tracks are tracks automatically skipped by the drive-any data on them is lost i

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Appendix A. List of Common CP/M Extensions Extension .ASM .BAK .BAS . OAT .OOC .FOR .HEX .LlB MAC .OBJ . PAS .PCO .REL .SRC .SUB .TXT .$$$ Explanation

Chapter 1 Introduction The CORVUS SYSTEMS CP/M USER GUIDE provides you wit~ a general introduction to the Corvus hard disk system, the Mirro

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Appendix B. Corvus Disk Error Codes (text of CERROR.DOC file from CORVUS UTILITIES DISKETTE VOL. 1) Corvus Disk Error Codes The Corvus controller has

9 A Read Data Fault B Data CRC Error C Sector Locate Error D Write Protected E Illegal Sector Address F Illegal Command 10 Drive Not Acknowledged 1

Appendix C Description of CDIAGNOS Program CDIAGNOS.DOC The CP/M version of the Corvus Disk Diagnostic (CDIAGNOS. COM) provides some relatively

5. UPDATE CONTROLLER CODE This option allows one to update or initially install controller code on the Corvus drive. This code resides on protecte

6. LIST/MODIFY DRIVE PARAMETERS This option allows you to examine and/or change the: A. The Spared Track Table This table specifies physical trac

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. Appendix D Description of Corvus Utilities Programs 1. INDEX.DOC 2. CERROR.DOC 3. PUTGET.COM 4. CLlNK2FV.COM CLlNK2TN.COM CLINK2TW.COM CLlNK7FV.COM

9. PMGR.COM 10. SPOOl.COM 11. DRIVEl.COM 12. LlNKASM.COM LlNKASM.DOC This is a program that allows the user to manage the pipes area of the driv

14. SEMA4.ASM SPOOLGEN.SUB SPOOL.SRC SPOOL.DEF SPOOL.PAS SPOOLM.PAS PIPEGEN.SUB PIPES.SRC PIPED.PAS PIPEC.PAS PIPES.PAS CPMIO.MAC 15. CLOADR.ASM 16.

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NOTE 1: Source for the programs PUTGET, CDIAGNOS, and MIRROR is available by special order. NOTE 2: All of the disk utilities contain the

Appendix E Supplemental VCR Information Corvus Systems recommends that you purchase a VHS-type video cassette recorder (VCR). The following VCR models

Chapter 2 Reviewing Some Basic Points About Your System Your Corvus hard disk system should be installed and configure at this pOint, following th

Type the appropriate CLINK program, for example: CLlNK2TN and press < RETURN >. The screen displays: --- CORVUS LINK INSTALLED ---8>

Your Corvus drive should already be configured and linked. To rur the program TANGENT (as an example) on Drive D of the Corvu~ disk drive, type