Re: [cc65] Uniform mass storage device discovery and file locations

On Wednesday 15 August 2012, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > My approach would be to just return the standard devices for the
> > platform, not showing drives at all.
> 
> What are the "standard devices" for the platform?
> 
> We using GEOS in VICE with one drive (device 8) it only shows disk 'A'
> but when configuring two drives (devices 8 and 9) then it shows disks
> 'A' and 'B'. Is this really "magic"?

standard is device number 8 for disk, 4 for printer, 1 for tape. i would 
completely ignore anything but 8, but thats just me :) (and the lib already 
sets _curdrive to the last used device number, ie the one the program was 
loaded from, afaik)

here is an example on how to enumerate the drives on the IEC bus: 
http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:detect_drives_on_iec_bus ... however, 
its so complex and so few programs would actually benefit from it, i wouldnt 
include something like that in the library.

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