Subject: RE: ATARITT
To: Eddy Morfan <eddy.morfan@inovia.fr>
From: Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>
List: port-atari
Date: 09/07/1999 13:04:42
> > no one is able to tell me how I can figure out the type of floppy drive
> > present (without writing to diskettes that is ;-) If you have a hint in=
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> AFAIR there is a location in TT hardware registers adress space where you=
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> can read dip switches settings.
It is a documented feature of BIOS (or XBIOS, not sure off-hand)
to report the size of the largest drive found. This means that,
if you have 1.44M on A and 720K on B, 1.44 will be reported. The
Atari Compendium tells this in the memory map listing too, AFAIR,
not just the BIOS/XBIOS section.
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