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

From: Groepaz <groepaz1gmx.net>
Date: 2012-08-17 10:32:46
On Friday 17 August 2012, you wrote:

> Could please somebode elaborate on this for a non-CBMer? Do they both
> mean the same?

yes, "opening the device" is pretty much "listen" on the iec bus

> Again: Ideally this would be a two step process:
> a) Check if the device is present
> b) Check if a (formatted, usable) disk is in the devie.

b) is not a good idea imho - since if there is no disk in the drive, it would 
result in banging the drive head (atleast if you do it by standard means and 
dont go fancy with custom drive code)

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