| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
Hi, can anyone help me regarding the use of an xbios call.
I am trying to write a 'FAT' format program in C (Laser), the format
part of the program (I'm trying 10 sectors 81 tracks) works fine.
My problem arises when I try to create the boot block. I make a call
to Protobt(buf,serialno,disktype,execflag) where
disktype 0 - single sided 180K 40 tracks
1 - double " 360K " "
2 - single " 360K 80 "
3 - double " 720K 80 "
I need to know what disktype to use (it's obviously none of the above,
how much should I expect from 10 sectors 81 tracks ?).
The macro for Protobt in osbind.h is...
xbios(18,buf,serialno,disktype,execflag)
Sooo if anyone knows what disktype I need to specify (and how they know!)
please shout......
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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| 516.1 | You might have to roll your own boot block. | 5319::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Jun 22 1989 11:25 | 3 |
I think you'll have to foramt your own boot block. Do you have the format? You can loot it up in any MSDOS documentation. | |||||
| 516.2 | Oh well | AYOV27::FAMIS_DEVSYS | Thu Jun 22 1989 12:21 | 6 | |
Jeff, thanks for the reply - I have no idea how to format my own
boot block or access to documentation, I seem to recall seeing a
book 'Atari ST disk drive internals' or something like that. Looks
like I'll have to buy it!!, thanks anyway...
Andrew
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| 516.3 | BOOTBLOCK Program here | CALYPS::SHARPE | Tue Jul 04 1989 16:46 | 63 | |
Andrew, here is a program that I use to format floppy's on my ST. I
lifted most of the code from on of the START magazines if I remember
correctly. It has the BOOTBLOCK info you want in it. Have Fun!
Mike Sharpe
/*
Program to format a floppy disk with a disk name
*/
#include <osbind.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
static char buf[20000];
int i;
long l;
for (i=0; i<81; i++) {
printf("\rFormat track %02d", i); fflush(stdout);
if (Flopfmt(buf, 0L, 1, 10, i, 0, 1, 0x87654321L, 0xe5e5))
printf(" Error on track %02d", i);
if (Flopfmt(buf, 0L, 1, 10, i, 1, 1, 0x87654321L, 0xe5e5))
printf(" Error on track %02d", i);
}
for (i=0; i<10*512; i++)
buf[i] = 0;
puts("Zero track 0 & 1");
Flopwr(buf, 0L, 1, 1, 0, 0, 10);
Flopwr(buf, 0L, 1, 1, 0, 1, 10);
Flopwr(buf, 0L, 1, 1, 1, 0, 10);
Flopwr(buf, 0L, 1, 1, 1, 1, 10);
puts("Build prototype boot block");
Protobt(buf, 0x01000000L, 3, 0);
/* buf[X] = Y where X and Y are DECIMAL EQUIVELENTS of HEX VALUES */
/* now change the number of sectors */
buf[19] = 64;
buf[20] = 06;
/* now change the sectors per track entry. (10 not 9) */
buf[24] = 10;
puts("Write it to disk");
Flopwr(buf, 0L, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1);
/* buf[X] = Y where X and Y are DECIMAL EQUIVELENTS of HEX VALUES */
/* begin entering the disk name here */
/* put zeros into floppy buffer here */
for (i=0; i<10*512; i++)
buf[i] = 0;
printf("Enter Disk Name here: ");
/* input disk name here */
scanf("%s", buf);
/* put end of disk name byte in buffer here */
buf[11] = 08;
Flopwr(buf, 0L, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1);
/* end disk name entry here */
}
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