Posted By
Boray
on 2005-08-01
11:59:20
|  Detect discdrive?
Hello!
Is there an easy way of detecting if it's a 1541 or a 1551 diskdrive that is connected to the computer? I am making a start menu for a disk, and if it's a 1541, then a disk turbo program should be started...
/Anders
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2005-08-01
12:20:06
| Re: Detect discdrive?
Check this post.
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Posted By
Boray
on 2005-08-02
06:55:39
| Re: Detect discdrive?
Great, thanks!
/Anders
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2005-08-02
08:42:32
| Re: Detect discdrive?
When I posted that message I cut and pasted frmo the Commodore Knowledge Base.
In reality there is a bug in that sample program. You must assign DS$ to another variable before closing the channel. Otherwise you will always get a DS$ of "OK".
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Posted By
Boray
on 2005-08-02
11:26:54
| Re: Detect discdrive?
Thanks. I noticed that too...
My program ended up like this:
1 OPEN1,8,15,"UI":FORT=1TO50:NEXT
2 IFINSTR(DS$,"1541")>0THEND=1 RINT"1541 DETECTED - USING TURBO"
3 CLOSE1
It worked without the FOR loop too, but I put it in there just to be sure...
/Anders
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