Introduction[]

The original trackdisk.device command set is capable to operate only up to 4GB large disks. New command set was designed by group of third party developers Ralph Babel, Randell Jesup, Oliver Kastl, Bernhard Möllemann and Ralph Schmidt.

TD64 commands[]

#define TD_READ64     24
#define TD_WRITE64    25
#define TD_SEEK64     26
#define TD_FORMAT64   27

Transfer offset[]

TrackDisk64 commands accept 64-bit byte offset. The lower 32 bits is passed in io_Offset and the upper 32 bits are passed in the io_Actual (io_HighOffset) field.

Transfer length[]

The maximum transfer length is still limited to 32-bits.

Testing TD64 support[]

To check if the underlying driver supports TD64 command set the application can send a TD_READ64 request with io_Offset, io_Actual (io_HighOffset) and io_Length all set zero. If the error IOERR_NOCMD is returned then TrackDisk64 command set can not be used.