Trackwriter only on one Side

[Giants]

I never talk about dosio.s, I don't have it

I talk about Solid Gold source : trackdisk.asm
It used 2 files that I already have because they are in the archive.
custom.i and cia.i wich is only variables define.

My configuration is simple, Amiga 1200 + WB 3.1 and ASM one 1.44.
Boot or start the AsmOne (exec on hardDrive or in the adf file)
Allocate some chip memory and load the trackdisk.asm source file, and try to compile with 'a' command.
Like I said, AsmOne don't like the syntaxe in this file.
(Syntaxe for macro is different like other compiler in AsmOne)
And they are other syntaxe problem.

See above !

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Giants

I never talk about dosio.s, I don't have it

I talk about Solid Gold source : trackdisk.asm
It used 2 files that I already have because they are in the archive.
custom.i and cia.i wich is only variables define.

My configuration is simple, Amiga 1200 + WB 3.1 and ASM one 1.44.
Boot or start the AsmOne (exec on hardDrive or in the adf file)
Allocate some chip memory and load the trackdisk.asm source file, and try to compile with 'a' command.
Like I said, AsmOne don't like the syntaxe in this file.
(Syntaxe for macro is different like other compiler in AsmOne)
And they are other syntaxe problem.

See above !

Well you SHOULD have "dosio.s", seeing as I uploaded it to the zone for you, told you it was there, and put your name next to the file.

In fact its the last file uploaded there.

[Giants]

Ah ok, sorry. I'm not accustomed with 'The zone' here.
Ok, I see the file.

I going to see that.

Thks

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Giants

Ah ok, sorry. I'm not accustomed with 'The zone' here.
Ok, I see the file.

I going to see that.

Thks

No worries, assumed you knew

[Giants]

So...
For now, no solution.

Rnc take from 'zone' is not really a source, it's just a lot of Opcode...
anyway, tried it but Can't make it work.
According to configuration i used, i have some I/O on floppy but never for writing.



http://sasfepu78.ddns.net/Temp/Test_diskio_s.uss

[modrobert]

Originally Posted by Giants

So...
For now, no solution.

Rnc take from 'zone' is not really a source, it's just a lot of Opcode...
anyway, tried it but Can't make it work.
According to configuration i used, i have some I/O on floppy but never for writing.

Not sure what state the system is in when your are running code using Action Replay, but I think you need to call forbid(), setup interrupts and dmacon, and perhaps more before jumping to diskio. Galahad probably knows.

Are you interested in a system friendly C program to read or write 160 tracks individually from CLI (command line)? Where odd or even track decides which side (head) to read from or write to.

Something like...

trackfoo read df0: 0 2 4 6 8 10

...which saves those tracks individually, one file per track, from one side of the floppy.

...and then you can write like...

trackfoo write df0: 0.bin 2.bin 4.bin 6.bin 8.bin 10.bin

I could throw something together based on the Commodore developer example, or if you want to do it yourself.

Another alternative is using hrtmon, where there are floppy commands already available; 'drive', 'motor', 'rs' to read sector and 'ws' to write sector.

[Giants]

Hi !

In amiga I use only Assembleur, I use C only on my PC.
I can use :

- a binary that I can Load and start from MKIII environment
That binary can take data directly from memory or floppy (file)
It take Cyliner in input (0-79) and Side (0-1) and, floppy (DF0, DF1)

If possible, I would like to have the source of it.

- I can also use a amiga cli exe that can to the job
Take in input <File> <track_destination> <side> <floppy>

[modrobert]

trackfoo v0.14 by modrobert in 2018
* Missing argument.
Function: This program copies one track to or from floppy.
Syntax  : trackfoo <commmand> <device> <filename> <track>
Result  : 0 OK. Error; 1 arg, 2 device, 3 file, 4 port, 5 mem, 6 track.
Where <command> is either 'read' or 'write', <device> is DF0: - DF3:,
<filename> for data to read or write, and <track> number between 0 - 159.
Even track number is lower head (side 0), odd track is upper head (side 1).

Attached to this post, let me know if it works, source code included.

[Giants]

Hi !
Thks a lot.
Your code working good.
Write a 'track' in a specific position entered. (input in track)

But I don't want writing only One track, I want to write a full data of a file.
So, don't limit it to 'one track'.

If you can, just modify it to work with all data of the file <filename>
and, when I choise a odd track, after writing the One track, just continue writing BUT on the SAME side
ex :

trackfoo write DF1: testfile 0
(testfile is a 20571 bytes of datafile)

Write the first 'track' (so $1600) in a 0 'track' position (T00 S00 H00 in deksid)
But for the second 'track' to write, you need to 'jump a full track', keep in the SAME Side so, write the 'second data track' not in T00 S00 H01 but in T01 S00 H00

Finaly I need to have this :
First $1600 block of my file ==> T00 S00 H00
Second $1600 block of my file ==> T01 S00 H00
Third $1600 block of my file ==> T02 S00 H00
...

you see, always writing on the same SIDE defined at the beginning of command line
Whith : trackfoo write DF1: testfile 0, We start on track 0
so Head 0, we need to stay on this Side


Just for my information, how you compil the C on Amiga ? What 'tools' ?

[modrobert]

Originally Posted by Giants

Hi !
Thks a lot.
Your code working good.
Write a 'track' in a specific position entered. (input in track)

But I don't want writing only One track, I want to write a full data of a file.
So, don't limit it to 'one track'.

If you can, just modify it to work with all data of the file <filename>
and, when I choise a odd track, after writing the One track, just continue writing BUT on the SAME side
ex :

trackfoo write DF1: testfile 0
(testfile is a 20571 bytes of datafile)

Write the first 'track' (so $1600) in a 0 'track' position (T00 S00 H00 in deksid)
But for the second 'track' to write, you need to 'jump a full track', keep in the SAME Side so, write the 'second data track' not in T00 S00 H01 but in T01 S00 H00

Finaly I need to have this :
First $1600 block of my file ==> T00 S00 H00
Second $1600 block of my file ==> T01 S00 H00
Third $1600 block of my file ==> T02 S00 H00
...

you see, always writing on the same SIDE defined at the beginning of command line
Whith : trackfoo write DF1: testfile 0, We start on track 0
so Head 0, we need to stay on this Side


Just for my information, how you compil the C on Amiga ? What 'tools' ?

I think you mean "C01 S00 H00", 'C' for cylinder which are 80 per side/head, tracks are 160 total (sides interleaved) for Amiga floppy.

Anyway, I used SAS/C compiler in this case, but can also recommend vbcc which is still maintained.

When it comes to splitting files into tracks on one side in an unconventional way, where you would also have to consider filling remaining bytes in last track with dummy data (or truncate) is too much of an edge case for me to include in the program.

A suggestion, you can make an Amiga script with the trackfoo command covering the specific tracks you need to write on one side, and use a tool like JoinSplitter from Aminet to split the data file which supports fixed size with dummy filling.

A script like this example (also attached in lha file with correct 's' attribute)...

echo "Start writing tracks"
trackfoo write df0: file.001 0
trackfoo write df0: file.002 2
trackfoo write df0: file.003 4
trackfoo write df0: file.004 6
trackfoo write df0: file.005 8
echo "Done!"

...which outputs...

Start writing tracks
Wrote 5632 (0x1600) bytes from file file.001 to track [0/159].
Wrote 5632 (0x1600) bytes from file file.002 to track [2/159].
Wrote 5632 (0x1600) bytes from file file.003 to track [4/159].
Wrote 5632 (0x1600) bytes from file file.004 to track [6/159].
Wrote 5632 (0x1600) bytes from file file.005 to track [8/159].
Done!

[Giants]

Yes, you right, cylinder, sorry for my mistake.
Yes it always to do what you said, split the file into a $1600 file(S) and fill the end with 'Zero value' but.

But, I have a lot of files to Put in Two amiga disk (it's for a crack tuto).
And, of course, if I split each files, I will have a big amount of files. (really a lot).

No problem with this but, it's not very optimized and not it's longer to do (to do this and to write in the tutorial how to to this).
If The exec do directly this job, it's more simple to use.

[modrobert]

Fixed the the trackfoo program so it checks hightrack before trying to read or write the track instead of after, updated previous post with v0.14.

BTW: Really starting to like the 'cpr' (CodeProbe) debugger which is part of the SAS/C bundle, makes testing fun and rewarding.

[Giants]

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