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Originally Posted by patrik
If you poke the number of tracks word in the trackdisk private unitdata and set it to at least 512, you can access the HxC direct access mode through trackdisk.device. However, as it is presented as PC/DOS tracks you have to use TD_RAWREAD and decode the track yourself.
If the direct access mode could be presented as an Amiga track, it would be super simple to read using CMD_READ (no manual decoding) and it would also give a bit higher transfer rates as the data density of an Amiga track is higher than a PC/DOS track.
Perhaps just at another track number than 255/510 to not cause incompatibility with current direct access mode software. Would that be possible Jeff?
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I prefer doing direct access with system friendly temporary "takeover" of the hardware (like SuperDuper did), makes it much more flexible.
Poking some system structures = no no. (It also would not work with KS1.x and I refuse to write programs that require KS 2.0+ unless there is some very good reasons
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