Re: [hatari-devel] Floppy emulation in fdc.c

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 15/12/2014 04:27, Roger Burrows a écrit :
> I was trying to figure out the hardware register at $860f on a Falcon, so I
> looked in Hatari's fdc.c.  I saw the comments around line 4600, which helps a
> bit.  I have an extra piece of info for you Hatari folks (you may know this
> already): during a write sector or write track sequence, TOS4 sends a large
> sector count to the DMA sector count register, then loops waiting for bit 3 of
> $860f to become zero before it selects the FDC command register and sends the
> FDC write track command.  So bit 3 seems to act as a sort of "DMA/FDC busy"
> indicator.  But it must be a bit more complex than that, because it isn't
> tested during a read sector sequence.

Hi

I don't think falcon's specific FDC bits were tested a lot. So far, this 
register is not really emulated. Maybe if wa had example of non working 
programs this could help to understand better its behaviour.

> While looking through fdc.c, I noticed the following in
> FDC_Get_Statusbar_Text(), around line 692:
>
> =============
> else if ( ( Command & 0xe0 ) == 0x50 )	strcpy ( CommandText , "SO" );		/* Step
> Out */
> =============
>
> Shouldn't that be 0x60 instead of 0x50?  Not very important, of course, since
> it only affects the status bar display.

You're right, I made an error while reading the doc, I will change this.

Nicolas