In computer file systems , a block allocation map is a data structure used to track disk blocks that are considered "in use". Blocks may also be referred to as allocation units or clusters .
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82-402: A DIRECTORY or CATALOG command that performs the same function. The following file types are supported: The presence of an asterisk ( * ) prepended to the file type in a directory listing (for example, *SEQ ) indicates that the file was not properly closed after writing. When the drive is commanded to close a file that has been opened for writing, the associated buffer is flushed to
123-469: A local area network connection than typical disk/host transfers. At least seven distinctly numbered versions of Commodore DOS are known to exist; the following list gives the version numbers and related disk drives. Unless otherwise noted, drives are 5¼-inch format. The "lp" code designates "low-profile" drives. Drives whose model number starts with 15 connect via Commodore's unique serial IEEE-488 bus (IEC Bus) serial (TALK/LISTEN) protocols; all others use
164-477: A LOAD. Alternatively, the user could press ⇧ Shift – RUN/STOP to LOAD and RUN the program automatically. A null byte embedded in a file name will interrupt the listing after loading by BASIC. If there are three null bytes, that makes it difficult to list through BASIC. Many machine language programmers would experiment with null bytes in an attempt to make it harder for BASIC programmers to access their code and tamper with it. In BASIC,
205-401: A directory listing. File types with < after them (for example, PRG< ) are "locked", and cannot be deleted—they can be opened for reading, however. There is no Commodore DOS command that can explicitly set or clear this status, but many third-party utilities were written to allow this to be done. These utilities generally read the directory using direct-access commands, perform
246-586: A flat namespace (no subdirectories ); the directory is stored on reserved track 18, which is located halfway from the hub to the edge of a 35-track single-sided disk. A file name may be up to 16 bytes in length and is theoretically unique; by using direct access methods on the directory structure, it is possible to rename a file to that of another—although accessing such files may be difficult or impossible. Files with identical names usually serve no purpose except to inform or visually manage files. One popular trick, used, for example, by The Final Cartridge III ,
287-429: A partial directory that shows only the files whose name starts with the letter K and which are of type PRG; all such partial directories still contain the initial disk name line and the final "BLOCKS FREE" line. Commodore DOS also offers a "Save-with-Replace" command, which allows a file to be saved over an existing file without the need to first SCRATCH the existing file. This was done by prepending an @ symbol to
328-650: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Commodore DOS Commodore DOS , also known as CBM DOS , is the disk operating system used with Commodore 's 8-bit computers . Unlike most other DOSes , which are loaded from disk into the computer's own RAM and executed there, CBM DOS is executed internally in the drive: the DOS resides in ROM chips inside the drive, and is run there by one or more dedicated MOS 6502 family CPUs . Thus, data transfer between Commodore 8-bit computers and their disk drives more closely resembles
369-447: Is a formal statement made to the court Allocation (oil and gas) in hydrocarbon accounting to assign the proper portions of aggregated petroleum and gas flows back to contributing sources Allocation voting in voting Location-allocation , used in geographic information systems (GIS) The allocation of scarce resources in operations research See also [ edit ] Location (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
410-444: Is a run mode only verb. Also, in programs that issue many disk commands it is customary to open a file to the device's command channel at the start of the program and not close it until the program has finished. Commodore BASIC versions 4.0 and later provide a pseudo-variable referred to as DS$ that may be used to retrieve drive status in lieu of the above code. This reserved variable is not available on earlier versions of BASIC, so
451-471: Is a special type written into the on-disk directory entry of files that have been deleted. Such files are not shown in a normal directory listing, and their data blocks and directory entries will be reused by files that are subsequently created. Some utility programs allow the "un-deletion" of such files if their data blocks and directory entries haven not yet been overwritten by other files. DEL files are commonly used to insert banners or comment sections into
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#1732843948949492-453: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Block allocation map CP/M used a block allocation map in its directory . Each directory entry could list 8 or 16 blocks (depending on disk format) that were allocated to a file. If a file used more blocks, additional directory entries would be needed. Thus, a single file could have multiple directory entries. A benefit of this method
533-415: Is the possibility to use sparse files by declaring a large file size but only allocating blocks that are actually used. A detriment of this method is the disk may have free space (unallocated blocks) but data cannot be appended to a file because all directory entries are used. The Commodore DOS used a similarly named but significantly different noting . This computer-storage -related article
574-563: The Commodore 64 , entering LOAD "$ " , 8 , 1 will flood the screen with garbage instead of loading the directory into BASIC RAM. This is because the drive assigns the directory a load address of $ 0401 (1025), which is equivalent to the start of BASIC for the Commodore PET , but corresponds to the default screen memory in the C64 (starting with the second character on the first line of
615-399: The wildcard expansion will only pick the first catalog name when no other file on that disk has been accessed before; the name of the last-used file is kept in memory, and subsequent LOAD "*" , 8 , 1 commands will load that file rather than the first. (However, LOAD "0:*" , 8 , 1 or LOAD ":*" , 8 , 1 will always load the first file on
656-403: The "phantom" buffer was allocated did not meet specifications, this could result in scrambled data being written to the disk. In September 1986, Philip A. Slaymaker published an article describing in great detail the cause of the bug and providing patches to the 1541 drive ROMs; readers with an EPROM burner could produce their own patched ROMs which could be swapped into the drive. Commodore
697-461: The BASIC program to a sequential file. If the secondary address isn't specified or is specified as 0 (e.g. LOAD "FILE" , 8 ), the file is saved/loaded from the BASIC memory area (which, on the C64, starts by default at $ 0801). If the secondary address is specified as a non-zero value (e.g. LOAD "FILE" , 8 , 1 ), the program is loaded starting from the address specified by
738-508: The DOS scratch command to delete the file may cause filesystem corruption, such as crosslinking. The only practical method of removing one of these files is by opening the file in "modify" mode (and fixing it), or by validating the disk (see the DOS validate command below), the latter which rebuilds the BAM and removes poison file references from the directory. The infamous save-with-replace bug could result in creation of splat files. *DEL
779-421: The DOS versions use incompatible disk formats: "2A" is used by most 5.25-inch DOS versions, "3D" by the 3.5-inch 1581). Lines after this have the size of a file (in disk blocks) as their pseudo "line number", followed by the file name in quotes and the three-letter type code. The last line shows the number of unallocated blocks on the disk (again as a pseudo "line number"), followed by the words "BLOCKS FREE." On
820-454: The PET's built-in machine language monitor to change the link address for the BASIC program after loading it. The command LOAD "*" , 8 , 1 will load the first program on the disk starting from the file-specified memory location. This is one of the most popular load commands of the platforms, the method to start majority of commercial software, for example. Of note is the fact that
861-491: The Save-with-Replace bug was real and including methods by which it could be triggered. Affected devices included the single-drive 1541 and dual-drive 4040; the 8050 and 8250 did not exhibit the issue. Some commentators suggested the bug could be avoided by always explicitly specifying the 0: drive number when saving, though it was later shown that any disk operations without a drive number were sufficient to lead to
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#1732843948949902-399: The above example, E will hold the error number (if any; it will be zero if no error exists), E$ will be a terse text description of the error, T will represent the disk track where the error occurred, and S will be the sector on track T to which the error refers. If no error exists, the equivalent of 00,OK,00,00 will be returned in the four variables. Note that INPUT#
943-484: The bug for that drive as well. As previously noted, the Commodore DOS itself is accessed via the "command channel", using syntax like that used to access files. Issuing commands to the DOS and retrieving status and error messages generated in response to commands is accomplished by opening a file to the device using 15 as the secondary address, for example: To retrieve and display the device status, one could code: In
984-412: The bug. The bug stemmed from the fact that the affected DOS implementations were modified versions of the DOS contained in earlier Commodore PET dual drives such as the 8050. This created a "phantom drive 1: " on single-drive systems, resulting in the allocation of an unnecessary buffer under some conditions. Since the Save-with-Replace command used all five drive buffers, and because the method by which
1025-674: The command channel must be manually read as demonstrated above. Note that immediately after power-on or reset, the DOS revision will be returned. For example, a 1541 will return 73,CBM DOS V2.6 1541,00,00 . Error code 73 is common to all drive models and may be used to determine if the drive has been reset to its power-on state. There are also a command for seeking in RELative type files ( RECORD# ), several block-level direct-access commands ( BLOCK-READ , BLOCK-WRITE , BUFFER-POINTER ), block management ( BLOCK-ALLOCATE , BLOCK-FREE ), drive memory manipulation and execution of program code on
1066-417: The directory can be accessed as a non-executable pseudo-BASIC program with LOAD "$ 0" , 8 (or LOAD "$ 1" , 8 in the case of a dual drive) followed by LIST . The first line has a line number of 0 or 1 (indicating the drive number), showing in reverse video the name and ID of the disk and a shorthand code for the DOS version with which it was created (codes vary only as far as
1107-436: The directory listing as, for example, 32 "PROGRAM",8,1 PRG . When the user moves the cursor to the beginning of the line, types the word LOAD over the file size, and presses RETURN , BASIC interprets that as LOAD "PROGRAM" , 8 , 1 ... , causing the program to be loaded into memory. Anything after the colon or the secondary address will not be executed, since the computer ignores any command after
1148-501: The disk and the block availability map (BAM) is updated to accurately reflect which blocks have been used. If a program crash or other problem (such as the user removing the disk while a file is open) results in an "orphan file", also referred to as a "poison" or "splat" file, buffers are not flushed and the BAM will not accurately reflect disk usage, putting the disk at risk of corruption. A poison file generally cannot be accessed (but can be opened in "modify" mode), and an attempt to use
1189-404: The disk.) The directories of disks in two-drive units are accessed as LOAD "$ 0" , 8 and LOAD "$ 1" , 8 . "0:$ " and "1:$ " do not access the directory but actual files on one drive or the other that just happen to be named "$ " . Partial directories can be loaded by adding a colon and a template: for example, LOAD "$ 0:K*=P" , 8 would load
1230-516: The drive to assure unambiguous interpretation. A typical statement in BASIC to write to a sequential file would be as follows: The parameters following the OPEN verb are as follows: Files can also be loaded and saved to with LOAD and SAVE commands. File name specifiers can also be used here, for example, SAVE "FILE" , 8 saves the BASIC program to a PRG (program) file and SAVE "0:FILE,SEQ,WRITE" , 8 , 1 saves
1271-583: The file itself (the PRG header, which is the first two bytes of the file)—this form of command is more common when loading machine code programs. Load relocation was first introduced on the VIC-20 because this machine could start BASIC RAM in several different locations, depending on the memory expansion that was installed. The older Commodore PET series did not support relocation, so LOAD "FILE" , 8 and LOAD "FILE" , 8 , 1 would have
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1312-472: The file name during the OPEN or SAVE operation - for instance, SAVE "@MY PROGRAM" , 8 . For years rumors spread, beginning with the 4040 drive, of a bug in the command's implementation. At first, this was denied by some commentators. Prizes were offered to prove the existence of the bug. By early 1985 Compute! magazine advised readers to avoid using the command. That year various authors independently published articles proving that
1353-461: The necessary modifications to the raw data, and then write the changes back to the disk. Accessing files is primarily an issue for the host computer. The kernal ROM in the computer contains the necessary primitive routines needed to access files, and the BASIC ROM contains a higher level abstraction for file access using BASIC syntax. The components that concern the DOS itself are file name parsing and
1394-421: The parallel IEEE-488 . Version 2.6 was by far the most commonly used and widely known DOS version, due to its use in the 1541 as part of C64 systems. Note: The revised firmware for the 1571 which fixed the relative file bug was also identified as V3.0. Thus it is not possible to differentiate the two versions using the version number alone. The 1541 Commodore floppy disk can contain up to 144 files in
1435-414: The portion of the file name beyond the $ A0 character will appear to have been separated from the first part of the file name by a quotation mark, causing BASIC to not consider it to be part of the full file name. This feature can be used to create directory entries such as SAVE "PROGRAM ⇧ Shift – space Commodore – D U D E ",8,1 , which will then appear in
1476-420: The same effect: the file would be loaded into the same memory region from which it was saved. Load relocation happens in the host, being an exception to what is said above about the secondary address being used only device-internally. Since the PET cannot relocate files, BASIC programs written on later Commodore machines must be modified by using a sector editor to change the header bytes. It is also possible to use
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1558-452: The screen). Viewing the directory with a LOAD "$ " , 8 command overwrites the BASIC program in memory. The DOS Wedge and various third-party cartridges and extenders such as Epyx Fast Load , Action Replay , and The Final Cartridge III allow viewing of the disk directory using special commands that load the directory into screen memory without destroying the current BASIC program. Some versions of Commodore BASIC include
1599-406: The secondary address. This section will give an overview of the necessary BASIC commands for the sake of completeness. Opening a file on a Commodore disk unit entails the processing of a number of parameters that are vaguely analogous to file opening procedures in other environments. Since the DOS is actually running in the drive's controller, the file opening sequence must pass enough information to
1640-502: Was made aware of Slaymaker's findings, and while they never issued an official update for the original 1541's ROMs, they did fix the bug in Revision 5 of the 1571 ROMs, and also in the ROMs for the 1541-c and 1541-II drives. Although not supported by Commodore, it is known that the 1541-II firmware (but not that of the 1541-c) can also be used in an original 1541 drive by using EPROMs, which will fix
1681-400: Was to add files named "----------------" of type DEL< to the directory, and files could then be rearranged around those lines to form groups. Many game developers, warez group members, and demoscene hackers used some more clever custom directory entries as well. File names may contain a shifted space character ( $ A0 ), and if the directory listing is being viewed from BASIC,