Amiga drive list

[litwr]

I need to get all Amiga hardware drive list, e.g., DF0: DF1: DH0: RAM:
I know that 'info' utility can produce such a list. Is it possible to get its sources? Maybe someone knows how it works?
I have tried to use a call to Lock function but it works poorly because it invokes an irritating dialog window "Please insert volume XXX: in any drive" if the pointed disk is not used in the tested system. The same dialog appears when I use a call to Open-function. Is it possible to block this dialog invocation?
It seems that WB has such a list of drives but I don't know how to get it.
Any hints are welcome. Thank you.

[hooverphonique]

IIRC, you can block dos dialogs by setting the window pointer of your process (pr_WindowPtr) to -1, but I'm not sure how that helps in getting a drive list.

[Toni Wilen]

dos.library has list that can be used to find all devices, volumes and assigns.

KS2.0+ has dos library functions to access it (LockDosList etc), under KS 1.x you need to do it manually.

[litwr]

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

IIRC, you can block dos dialogs by setting the window pointer of your process (pr_WindowPtr) to -1, but I'm not sure how that helps in getting a drive list.

Thank you very much. It works but I am unsure about a way to get the pr_WindowPtr pointer. I use the next code.

    SUB.L A1,A1	
    MOVE.L ExecBase.w,A6
    JSR FindTask(A6)
    move.l d0,a4
    move.l #-1,$b8(a4)  ;pr_Windowptr

Is it correct to use plain offset $b8? It is very confusing that documentation says that FindTask returns a pointer to a Task structure not to a Process structure.
Do I need to save an old value of pr_Windowptr? I have read that it is better to restore it before the program finishes but I don't understand a reason for this. Would someone like to help me to clarify this matter?
IMHO there are not many typical disk drive names for Amiga. They are only DFn, DHn, and RAM. So I can just check every possible case while the list is being built.

[litwr]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

dos.library has list that can be used to find all devices, volumes and assigns.

KS2.0+ has dos library functions to access it (LockDosList etc), under KS 1.x you need to do it manually.

Thank you very much. This way seems the best one. But I am confused documentation about driver/dos lists. Would you like to help me a bit more?
I have just tried to traverse the driver list by the next code.

    lea.l name(pc),a1      ;pointer to a device name, e.g., df0:
    move.l ExecBase,a6 
    lea.l 350(a6),a0        ;pointer to the device list
    jsr FindName(a6)

It doesn't work. I checked the list on which a0 points but it contains only names like 'keyboard.device', 'timer.device', ... How can I get a pointer to a list with disk drive devices?

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by litwr

Is it correct to use plain offset $b8? It is very confusing that documentation says that FindTask returns a pointer to a Task structure not to a Process structure.
Do I need to save an old value of pr_Windowptr? I have read that it is better to restore it before the program finishes but I don't understand a reason for this. Would someone like to help me to clarify this matter?

It is perfectly fine to use a 'plain' offset, but easier to read if you write 'move.l #-1,pr_WindowPtr(a4)'


The first part of the process structure is the task part of the process, so when using FindTask(0) in a process, you get a pointer to a task+process-specific data at the end of it. Have a look here.


You need to save the value in pr_WindowPtr and restore it when done as your process is the same as the CLI process when you start your program from CLI.