Trackwriter only on one Side

[Giants]

Hi !

I am looking for a code or software allowing me to write data on a floppy disk at desired location
but only on one side (chosen when start this code).
Example:
Data available in memory in $20000
Length of $2C000

Need to write them on DF0 from the cylinder 00 sector00
but written without changing face so, once arrived at sector 11, do not change side and continue writing on the floppy to the next cylinder.


Thks a lot

[StingRay]

I can't remember any tool to do this but it's easy to do with a few lines of code. Use trackdisk.device (DoIO) or any trackloader which allows to save data (such as Rob Northen's), create a list of offsets for your data and you can write the data exactly the way you want. Or simply write one track, skip one, write one track etc.

[Don_Adan]

You can use Siegfried Copy to write one sided data, but you must know what you must do.

[Giants]

StingRay : I you have this kind of code, i want it.
On my side, I can't create with my knowledge this code.

Siegfried Copy it is not a X-copy like ? no ?
I don't want copy a floppy or adf, I want to put some date (from ram or file) on specific cylinder and only on 1 side.
You sure Siegfried Copy can do this ?

[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by Giants

StingRay : I you have this kind of code, i want it.
On my side, I can't create with my knowledge this code.

Just find an example of how to use "trackdisk.device", there should be plenty of them..

[modrobert]

Does a single "track" (0-79) always involve both heads? Or is it head change depending on "odd" or "even" track?

[Giants]

Well, If I'm not wrong, 'Single side' don't exist on Amiga.
Off course, You can find some game that have only data on One side but they used a specific trackloader.
Ex : IK+
http://sasfepu78.ddns.net/cgi-bin/IP...9_IKplus_AMIGA



If you use trackdisk.device (ak : jsr -1C8)
It's work with 11 sector, 80 cylinder with 2 sides
We can also work with another 'word' like sectors, track...
But like we saif in another thread : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=90102

Data start In a 'track' in sector 00 and going to Sector 10 (so 11 sectors)
then... change side and continue reading/writing the data on the 'new' 'track'
Track as Half cylinder

Solution is, like StingRay say, use a modify trackloader code.
I try to going this way.

[Don_Adan]

Originally Posted by Giants

StingRay : I you have this kind of code, i want it.
On my side, I can't create with my knowledge this code.

Siegfried Copy it is not a X-copy like ? no ?
I don't want copy a floppy or adf, I want to put some date (from ram or file) on specific cylinder and only on 1 side.
You sure Siegfried Copy can do this ?

With Siegried Copy you can write/read choosed tracks to/from disks/rad. But you must known what you want to do. You can write data to ram and write data from ram to disk.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Giants

Well, If I'm not wrong, 'Single side' don't exist on Amiga.
Off course, You can find some game that have only data on One side but they used a specific trackloader.
Ex : IK+
http://sasfepu78.ddns.net/cgi-bin/IP...9_IKplus_AMIGA



If you use trackdisk.device (ak : jsr -1C8)
It's work with 11 sector, 80 cylinder with 2 sides
We can also work with another 'word' like sectors, track...
But like we saif in another thread : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=90102



Data start In a 'track' in sector 00 and going to Sector 10 (so 11 sectors)
then... change side and continue reading/writing the data on the 'new' 'track'
Track as Half cylinder

Solution is, like StingRay say, use a modify trackloader code.
I try to going this way.

Thats not what Stingray was saying. You don't need to modify any track loader at all to get it to do what you want.

You can use the Rob Northen loader to write your data in $1600 byte chunks, and then offset to the next track to write to.

So for instance we would start like this.

move.l #file_length,d7
moveq #0,d0 ;DF0 selected
moveq #$B,d1 ;Start write at sector 11 ($B)
lea data,a0 ;Pointer to data to write to disk
moveq #1,d3 ; Activate write disk
moveq #$B,d2 ;Write 11 sectors
loop_write:
lea trackbuffer,a1 ; Data area for trackbuffer
bsr rnc_load ;Write data
tst.l d0
bne disk_error
sub.l #$1600,d7 ;subtract last written track size from file length
bmi file_written ; If we have gone minus, write file complete
add.w #$b+$b,d1 ; Skip other side and get to next offset on same side
lea $1600(a0),a0 ;Get to next chunk of data to write
bra loop_write

disk_error:
bra disk_error

file_written:

Something along those lines will do what you require, you could do something similar with trackdisk device, just passing the various offsets as Stingray already described, but certainly no need to hack an existing loader.

[Giants]

I try Siegried Copy and I was not convinced.
It's not really suitable for what I want to do and with on several marges files.

I see this post : http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=16314
And I see this : Writefile.s - Writes the specified file to the master disk

Maybe, with this code and some modification...

[Giants]

Galahad/FLT : ok, but I already search for 'Rob Northen loader' ource code and I don't find it.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Giants

Galahad/FLT : ok, but I already search for 'Rob Northen loader' ource code and I don't find it.

Search no more


http://flashtro.com/rnc-sector-laoder-shortened/

[Giants]

Gooood
Thks.

Last Time : Hummm, Don't think this version take D3 for Read/Write configuration...
I don't see, in the source code D3 opération like this.

[heavy]

is Blood Money use this kind of custom trackloader ??

quote from whdload :

Loader
subq.w #1,d0 ; num track
btst #2,$BFD100 ; test side 0 or 1
bne.b .side_ok ; side 1 ok
add.w #79,d0 ; if side 0 then num track +79
.side_ok
mulu #$1838,d0 ; num track * custom size track
mulu #$1838,d1 ; len track * custom size
moveq #0,d2
move.l resload(pc),a2
jsr resload_DiskLoad(a2)

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by heavy

is Blood Money use this kind of custom trackloader ??

quote from whdload :

No, track size is too big for standard AmigaDOS.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by Giants

Gooood
Thks.

Last Time : Hummm, Don't think this version take D3 for Read/Write configuration...
I don't see, in the source code D3 opération like this.

Check out the Zone, official Rob Northen file for sector loader

[Giants]

Well... a lot of 'trackload' thing in the zone...
I find 2 RNC binarie code.
Same code but one is shortest than other.
All start with the same code and for me, Don't work in 'writing' mode.
Is strange that is hard to find a trackloader who can also write I think.

Here, a zip of 2 RNS rnc trackloader I find, but don't think is work in 'writing' mode and, pretty sure, if it's work in writing mode, not with D3=1

Find in another thread of RN Loader :
d3.w = Operation (read = 0, write = 1, format = 2)

[alpine9000]

Solid Gold which has src available on aminet has a trackloader with write support.

[Giants]

Ah ?
Thks, I going to see that.

Seems to be good but... but not 'compatible' for asm-one
Macro and some another things are no loved by asmOne and I use AsmOne
Arg...

[Galahad/FLT]

The "dosio.s" file I provided is the RNC sector loader with read/write support, its listed as such in the official Rob Northen text that accompanies the directory I have.

How are you using this loader? Are you correctly shutting down the system or disabling multitasking and allocating correct memory and such for the various things?

Trackbuffer MUST be in chip ram.

I'd like to know what framework code you're using to utilise the loader because i'm not convinced you're using it right.