Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor) (06/15/91)
I am writing to call upon the collective wisdom of the net. As you
may have noticed in .hardware, I have a TEAC FD-235JS SCSI Floppy
working on my system now. This is a 4M, 2M, 1M floppy which formats to
2.88M, 1.44M & .72M. At present I have a utility to set the mode of
the controller & a utility to do formats. To use the disk I do a SCSI
format & then an AmigaDOS [or MSDOS] quick format.
This is a recipe for disaster because the FFS does not notice
diskchanges.
When folks were using FFS floppies with 1.3 there was a program
around called AutoDiskChange by Martin Taillefer (sp?). It worked by
patching a trackdisk interrupt. I need a program something like this.
My current idea is to write a daemon to do occasional Test Unit
Ready & Mode Senses. The Sense Keys will tell me if I have a diskchange
& if I have the correct mode set. Then I will have to send a packet to
the handler process.
What I wonder is...
Is there a better way?
-het
PS.
Anybody know a source of cheap 4M (barium ferrite) disks? I could
get used to this 2.88M per floppy, but they're expensive.
"They're selling postcards of the hanging, the circus is in town."
- R. Zimmerman
Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions
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