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 uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.bc.ca