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|    Re: FASTCIRC--High-speed circles for HGR    |
|    02 Nov 22 19:09:29    |
      From: gids.rs@sasktel.net              > > > If I may, block 88 can be changed to getting the value of T1/SB/01. It       contains the track of the VTOC. Using it allows to handle VTOC that are not on       T11.        > > >        > > > Antoine        > > Is this part of DOS and is it the same for all versions of DOS? Including       DOS3.2 and Third Party DOS's?       > DOS: track 17 sector 0 holds the VTOC. Everything else is potentially       variable.        >        > ProDOS: block 2 holds the start of the volume directory. Everything else is       potentially variable.        >        > Most disks follow the standard pattern: track 17 is a full catalog track,       ProDOS has 4 volume directory blocks followed by the bitmap. Detecting "most       disks" isn't the interesting part of the problem though. :-)                     I was taking Antoine's comment of T1/SB/01 as the location of the VTOC within       DOS. Unless that was a typing error and was supposed to be T11/SB/01, in       which case it has a different meaning.              The value of Track 17 Sector 0 for the VTOC is stored somewhere in Tracks 0-2       which is usually DOS, unless the disk is DOSless. The question I was asking       Antoine was, is the VTOC Track/Sector number in the same location for all       versions of DOS including        third party DOSes that one can use a standard routine to find the VTOC without       assuming it is always Track 17.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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