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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
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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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