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Re: Where does the "16 SECTOR" message come from?



Tristan Mumford wrote:
Tristan Mumford wrote:


It's probably a blatantly stupid question to most but before today I have
never seen the "16 SECTOR" or "13 SECTOR" boot messages. Where is it
stored? Is it in the diskII ROM or AppleSoft?

Sorry for the question, but I can't find where it lives.

Tristan.




G'day! I put the 0xC100 and 0xC800 memory areas up on my site in "Tech ->
Misc".
I haven't looked at them yet. But hopefully the first 256 bytes will give
insight on how to get to the rest.

The slot ROM (256 bytes) clearly reads the disk to determine whether
it is a 13-sector format or a 16-sector format, but the $C800 space
deosn't appear to belong to the disk controller.

It can be a little tricky to save, since it must be mapped in, moved
to a safe space, and then saved.  Otherwise, any other extended ROM
activity will disable the disk controller's $C800 ROM.

-michael

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