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

Hi,

>> 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

Okay, I - sort of - see.

>> 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)

Seems to be a misunderstanding: I'm suggesting a two-step process
explicitly for reasons like that. findnextdevice() does only the first
step. Only if the program calls rootdir() the second step is
performed.

Regards,
Oliver
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