Newbie writing a diagnostic App

[RetrogamerRhys]

What assembler would be useful to know when writing a diagnostic tool for the Amiga 500. I want to be able to check if the read and write procedure of the floppy disk drive works correctly by reading and writing sectors of a 3.5inch floppy disk. I want it to be able to test floppy disks for corruption as well as the drive. If someone could tell me what libraries I need to include and how to use them for example. Thanks.

[RetrogamerRhys]

I believe the best way to do this is using Amiga OS, Exec library to control disk access.

[matibee]

I skimmed through this recently.. I should think everything you need is in here;
https://archive.org/details/1990-beats- ... d/mode/2up

I owned this book in '91 but it didn't mean a lot to me as I didn't start programming in C until '94.

[RetrogamerRhys]

Could you please post the name of the book as I can't seem to get the link working, thanks.

[matibee]

Sure. It’s the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual. But there are others, such as the Hardware Reference Manual. Try this link for pdf downloads...
https://www.ikod.se/download/documents/
Cheers

[RetrogamerRhys]

Thanks for the link It was very useful, obviously this project is going to take some doing accessing the kernel rom and hardware at a very low level.

[matibee]

Here's another interesting link (your project is still in my thoughts obviously

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-Disk-D ... SwHr9eBh4m

Book: Amiga Disk Drives Inside Out
Publisher: Abacus
Ebay Auction. £40 (UK)

Internet archive copy: https://archive.org/details/Amiga_Disk_ ... s/mode/2up