Re: [cc65] dio_query_sectcount() on Atari ?

Hi,

> I thought to remember that the reason was that the disk needs to be accessed
> in
> order to find it out and I didn't want to do that. But I've just looked and
> saw that
> for the dio_query_sectsize it needs to be accessed, too. So this couldn't be
> the reason.

In my opinion it's absolutely legitimate for dio_query_sectcount() to
access the disk. Just think of a High-Density drive backward
compatible with Single-Density disks. From that perspective the sector
count is a disk property, not a drive property.

I'd even say that it is correct for dio_open() to access the disk (if
necessary).  If I write a program using DIO that asks the user to
insert a disk into a drive I do so before calling dio_open()...

> But the good news is, that after two years, where I lived in a very small
> place
> with most of my computers put away in storage, my Ataris and friends are now
> at home again
> and will be set up in the next weeks. I only need some more tables to put
> them on... :-)

Cool :-)

In case you implement  dio_query_sectcount() you may want to check out
my diodemo.c in the samples directory. It's a sector-by-sector disk
copy program (that uses dio_query_sectcount() ). In the samples/README
I already claim that diodemo runs on the Atari. Maybe you can have
this statement become actually true ;-)

Regards,
Oliver
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