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From: Xc60039@PORTLAND.BITNET (Douglas Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Disk Reads/Writes
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Date: 12 May 88 06:10:52 GMT
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     I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make a program in Assembly
or some other Apple oriented language which would allow me to see which track
and sector is being written to or read from the disk drive.  I would like it to
be able to run the program and have it run itself in a place in memory where I
could boot up thereafter and still have it resident in memory.  I'm not an
assembly code writer, I'm more versed in Basic.  To me, this sounds like a
relatively easy task to accomplish, but I may be under estimatining the
complexity of an Apple.
      Some years back I saw an Atari diskdrive which accomplished the same
task, but rather than it running in resident memory, it was part of the disk-
drive.  Just a few LEDs printing out which track was being read.  I don't
remember if it stated which sector was being utilized, but it seemed like a
nice option to have.
      I have an Apple IIe with most of the manuals for reference, so any
references you make I can, hopefully, understand.  Is there any reason why
Apple doesn't have such bells and whistles on their diskdrives?
      Thanks in advance for any help or advive.

                             Douglas Howell
                           (xc60039 at Portland)