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Originally Posted by Leffmann
Displaying the track position could be a problem because the hardware itself doesn't tell the exact position, and IIRC access to the trackdisk.device is exclusive, but I could be wrong on that. At least I can't think of any neat method to get the track positions of the drives.
What was wrong with the existing utilities? Do you need some fancy displays or graphics for this? Just putting some text in a thin titlebar-sized window is not a problem.
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Right now I'm using a program called TD (TrackDsiplay) by Preben Nilsen:
http://aminet.net/package/misc/fish/fish-0543
source in assembler included so have a look how he goes about it... (pretty sure not in a very system friendly way)
I don't need anything fancy just what I've described in the first post. The problem right now is that you'd have to use two separate programs for it and none of the ones I found were small enough or didn't let you change the format of the display.
As for now I use zshell's built in MemClock feature (displays free mem and time but disappears after you open a new window together with TD which only displays head positions for each drive).
Any help would be greatly appreciated
http://aminet.net/package/misc/fish/fish-0399
Here's another one by Olaf Barthel (c source included)