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base:detect_drives_on_iec_bus

Providing Multiple Drive Support via Machine Language

By Todd S. Elliott (eyeth@erols.com) March 16, 1998

[See also Commodore World #22 for a similar routine]

First, many thanks to Maurice Randall for providing the addresses in drive ROMs of various disk drives for the purposes of determining each drive. The info was largely adapted from the BASIC drive polling routines written by Doug Cotton. Many thanks also goes to Doug Cotton for writing a well written and comprehensive two-part article on serial bus programming appearing in Commodore World #10 and #11. It has taken a lot of pain and frustration out of serial bus programming.

Before we go any further, Doug Cotton recently stated in a comp.sys.cbm article about Desterm v3.0's problems of serial device polling. Doug stated that Mark Fellows found out that sending a 'm-r' command to the Xetec SuperGrafix *Gold* on serial device #14 will lock up the serial bus. Thus, the routine would need to ignore polling of device #14, and allow the user of your program the option of forcing the polling of device #14 for any attached serial device. (Of course, warn the user of such dangers.)

Now, with the thanks out of the way, let's get right into the bits and nybbles of the program. First, it creates a drive buffer at the cassette buffer beginning at $0334, and zeroes it out. The .Y register serves as a device index; a value of 8 in .Y equals device 8, 9 in .Y equals device 9 and so on, up to 30 for a permissible range of devices from 8 to 30.

Next, it quickly determines whether a serial device is attached at devices #8-#30. if there is a serial device, the program will then put in a value equal to the serial device at the buffer indexed by an appropriate .Y device index. This value will be changed later in the drive polling routine.

The drive polling routine then checks the values within the buffer indexed by .Y serving as a serial device number. If a non-zero value is found, then there is a serial device present and the program then reads in the addresses in drive ROMs. The program checks the drive ROMs for the appropriate identifiers to correctly determine which drive it is.

Once it has identified the drive, it inserts a byte representation of that drive into the buffer, indexed by .Y serving as a device number. The program repeats, until there are no more available drives for identification.

At the end of the routine, the drive buffer, indexed by .Y as a device number, should contain byte representations of various drives at various device numbers. This serves as a 'snapshot' of such CBM power system. The program then can freely use this information to offer multiple drive support with specific device support such as partitions, subdirectories, using more drive RAM for buffers, and more.

Let's offer my system as an example:

   dev #08- Internal 1571
   dev #09- External 1571
   dev #10- FD 4000
   dev #11- CMD HD 85
   dev #12- RAMLink

After running the routine below, the drives buffer contains the following values:

   .Y as device index = value (decimal)
                  08  =  71
                  09  =  71
                  10  =  224
                  11  =  192
                  12  =  128
                  13  =   0
                  ...[so on]
                  30  =   0

Read also the comments liberally sprinkled throughout the code to gain further insight into this routine. There is minimal error checking in the following routine, so it is good practice to implement such checking.

Enjoy.

=============================================================================
; polls all available drives
; By Todd S. Elliott
; Buddy assembler format
; Feel free to use the routine without any attribution.

; Compiler equates
; zero page
ldv    = $fb; last device number that LOADed the program
status = $90; status register
dv     = $ba; current device number- arbitrary location

; equates
drives = $032c; buffer for the drive poll routine- arbitrary location
second = $ff93
tksa   = $ff96
acptr  = $ffa5
ciout  = $ffa8
untalk = $ffab
unlstn = $ffae
listen = $ffb1
talk   = $ffb4
readst = $ffb7
setlfs = $ffba
setnam = $ffbd
open   = $ffc0
close  = $ffc3
chkin  = $ffc6
chkout = $ffc9
clrchn = $ffcc
chrin  = $ffcf
chrout = $ffd2
load   = $ffd5
save   = $ffd8
getin  = $ffe4
clall  = $ffe7

; program code begins here

*= $c000; arbitrary starting address

  ldy #23
  lda #$00
- sta drives+8,y; zero out the drive buffer
  dey
  bpl -

; this way, a zero indicates that a drive is not present in that address 
; referenced by the .Y index. For example- .Y equals 10, and if that address 
; in 'drives,y' contains a zero, then device #10 is unavailable and there is 
; no drive attached.

  lda dv; get current device and save it temporarily
  sta ldv; device from which it was LOADed- Obviously will work if this
         ; routine was called first before any disk activity. Use this
         ; routine as part of the initalization sequence of your program.
         ; Otherwise, it is not necessary to use it in this routine.
  lda #$08; start with device #8 and finish at #30
  sta dv; create a new device number
- ldy #$00
  sty status; clear the status register
  jsr listen; opens the device for listening
  lda #$ff; Secondary address - $0f OR'ed with $f0 to open
  jsr second; opens the channel with sa of 15
  lda status; check the status byte
  bpl +; branch if there is a device present
; obviously, some kind of error- restore original device
- jsr unlstn; severs the serial bus control

; The following sub-routine was 'commented' by the semi-colon. Either way, 
; the drive polling with or without the commented sub-routine will work 
; correctly. The reason why I left it there is because Commodore World #10-11 
; articles on serial bus routines recommended such an anal-retentive 
; sequence. I'm sure it is for a good reason though. If you can spare the 
; room, feel free to use the commented routine by removing the semi-colons.

; lda #$00
; sta status; clear the status register
; lda dv; get device number
; jsr listen; opens the device for listening
; lda #$ef; sa - $0f and OR'ed with $e0 to close file
; jsr second; closes the channel with sa of 15
; jsr unlstn; finally closes it
  inc dv; increment device number
  lda dv
  cmp #31; is it device 31? if so, finish drive polling
  bne --
  beq ++; relative JMP
+ ldy dv
  tya
  sta drives,y; store in successful device number
              ; remember, .Y is the device index
  bne -; relative JMP

+ ldy #14
  disable polling of serial device #14
  lda #$00
  sta drives,y

  ldy #$08; get drive info (And if in 128 mode, delete the plus (+) sign.)
l1 lda drives,y
  bne +
  iny
  cpy #31; are we done? (acceptable range of 8 to 30)
  bne l1
  rts; exits the whole drive polling routine
+ sta dv; set device number
  jsr open'cmd'channel
  ldx #<cmdinfo; check to see if it is a CMD drive first
  ldy #>cmdinfo
  jsr open'cmd'two

  jsr chrin
  cmp #70; is it 'f' for FD series drives?
  bne +
  jsr chrin; get next character
  cmp #68; is it 'd' for FD series drives?
  bne l2
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #$e0; indicates that it is a FD drive at device number
  jmp get'next'drive

+ cmp #72; is it 'h' for HD series drives?
  bne +
  jsr chrin; get next character
  cmp #68; is it 'd' for HD series drives?
  bne l2
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #$c0; indicates that it is a HD drive at device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP

+ cmp #82; is it 'r' for RL/RD series?
  bne l2
  jsr chrin; get next character
  cmp #68; is it 'd' for RD series?
  bne +
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #$f0; indicates that it is a RD drive at device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP
+ cmp #76; is it 'l' for RL series?
  bne l2
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #$80; indicates that it is a RLdrive at device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP

l2 =*; check for CBM devices
  jsr close'cmd'channel; close command channel
  jsr open'cmd'channel
  ldx #<cbminfo; check to see if it is a 1541/1571 drive
  ldy #>cbminfo
  jsr open'cmd'two

  jsr chrin; gets the drive info
  cmp #53; is it '5' for the 15xx drives?
  bne l3
  jsr chrin; gets the next number
  cmp #52; is it '4' for the 1541?
  bne +
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #41; indicates a 1541 at that device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP
+ cmp #55; is it '7' for the 1571?
  bne l3
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #71; indicates a 1571 at that device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP

l3 =*; polls for a 1581 drive
  jsr close'cmd'channel; closes the command channel
  jsr open'cmd'channel
  ldx #<info1581; check to see if it is a 1581 drive
  ldy #>info1581
  jsr open'cmd'two

  jsr chrin; gets the drive info
  cmp #53; is it a '5' for a 15xx drive?
  bne l4
  jsr chrin; gets the next drive number
  cmp #56; is it a '8' for a 1581?
  bne l4
  ldy dv; gets device number
  lda #81; indicates a 1581 at that device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP

l4 =*; foreign drive- just mark it as foreign
  ldy dv; get device number
  lda #$01; indicates a foreign device number
  bne get'next'drive; relative JMP

close'cmd'channel =*
  jsr clrchn
  lda #$0f; lfn
  jsr close; and closes it
  rts

; gets the next drive on the serial bus
; First, it stores the byte representation of a drive into the 'drives' 
; buffer indexed by .Y showing the device number.

; Available byte representations-
; 00 - No serial device available
; 01 - foreign drive (MSD, Excelerator, Lt.Kernal, etc.)
; 41 - 1541 drive
; 71 - 1571 drive
; 81 - 1581 drive
; e0 -   FD drive
; c0 -   HD drive
; f0 -   RD drive
; 80 - RAMLink

; Note - the high bit set indicates a CMD drive, whereas the high bit cleared 
; indicates a CBM drive.

get'next'drive =*
  sta drives,y
  jsr close'cmd'channel
  ldy dv
  iny; increment table offset
  jmp l1

; opens the command channel and issues a command
open'cmd'channel =*
  lda #$0f; lfn
  tay; sa for command channel
  ldx dv
  jsr setlfs; set up the open sequence
  lda #$07; length of command (m-r command)
  rts

open'cmd'two =*
  jsr setnam; sends the command
  jsr open; opens the file
  ldx #$0f; lfn
  jsr chkin; redirect input
  rts

cmdinfo =*; gets CMD drive info
          ; at $fea4 in drive ROM
.asc "m-r"
.byte $a4,$fe,$02,$0d

cbminfo =*; gets CBM drive info
          ; at $e5c5 in drive ROM
.asc "m-r"
.byte $c5,$e5,$02,$0d

info1581 =*; gets 1581 drive info
           ; at $a6e8 in drive ROM
.asc "m-r"
.byte $e8,$a6,$02,$0d

; end file drivepoll
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