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Article #9032Re: Problem with trackdisk.device
From: Carolyn Scheppner CATS
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 15:54
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 15:54
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In article <3822@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Kevin Oster) writes:
>I am having trouble accessing the disk hardware directly. It seems that
>there is an interrupt server that works with the trackdisk.device that
>sets up the hardware registers the way it sees fit to set them on a regular
>basis, about one second intervals...
Well, at the very least, you have to make AmigaDOS stop looking at the
drive. You must send an ACTION_INHIBIT packet to the MsgPort of the
drive's dos process (DeviceProc("df1:")). Look for recently posted
(an on Fish disk) Conpackets.c for an example of sending a packet.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!hc!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!cbmvax!carolyn From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Problem with trackdisk.device Keywords: Disk, Trackdisk Message-ID: <3963@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 8 Jun 88 15:54:30 GMT References: <3822@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 16