Hi Shawn, > Hi, I will try to answer the questions to the best of my knowledge. Thanks for the time/effort :-) >> Just out of curiosity: Is it possible to explain to a non-Atari >> insider in in reasonable length why such an approach doesn't work on >> the Atari? > [quite some explanations I could follow (more or less)] > Then there are the multitude of disk drives available for the Atari > computer, all of which provided some different features, and some common > ones. There is the "Percom block", which would return data about the drive > and disk, including the number of sectors. Most advanced drives implemented > this, and most hard drives. However, the most popular drives, the Atari 810 > and Atari 1050 did not. What DOS is then used to access the 810/1050? And how does that DOS know how large they are? > Perhaps the "best" method would be to query for the percom block, and if > this isn't available, default to brute force method. I don't think trying > to figure out what DOS formatted the drive is useful in this case. I see. Regards, Oliver ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Sun Oct 21 16:01:18 2012
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