disk

Interact with disk drives.

These functions can operate on locally attached or remote disk drives. To use a locally attached drive, specify “side” as one of the six sides (e.g. left); to use a remote disk drive, specify its name as printed when enabling its modem (e.g. drive_0).

tip

All computers (except command computers), turtles and pocket computers can be placed within a disk drive to access it's internal storage like a disk.

Changes

isPresent(name)Checks whether any item at all is in the disk drive
getLabel(name)Get the label of the floppy disk, record, or other media within the given disk drive.
setLabel(name, label)Set the label of the floppy disk or other media
hasData(name)Check whether the current disk provides a mount.
getMountPath(name)Find the directory name on the local computer where the contents of the current floppy disk (or other mount) can be found.
hasAudio(name)Whether the current disk is a music disk as opposed to a floppy disk or other item.
getAudioTitle(name)Get the title of the audio track from the music record in the drive.
playAudio(name)Starts playing the music record in the drive.
stopAudio(name)Stops the music record in the drive from playing, if it was started with disk.playAudio.
eject(name)Ejects any item currently in the drive, spilling it into the world as a loose item.
getID(name)Returns a number which uniquely identifies the disk in the drive.
isPresent(name)Source

Checks whether any item at all is in the disk drive

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. boolean If something is in the disk drive.

Usage

getLabel(name)Source

Get the label of the floppy disk, record, or other media within the given disk drive.

If there is a computer or turtle within the drive, this will set the label as read by os.getComputerLabel.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. string | nil The name of the current media, or nil if the drive is not present or empty.

See also

setLabel(name, label)Source

Set the label of the floppy disk or other media

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.
  2. label string | nil The new label of the disk
hasData(name)Source

Check whether the current disk provides a mount.

This will return true for disks and computers, but not records.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. boolean If the disk is present and provides a mount.

See also

getMountPath(name)Source

Find the directory name on the local computer where the contents of the current floppy disk (or other mount) can be found.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. string | nil The mount's directory, or nil if the drive does not contain a floppy or computer.

See also

hasAudio(name)Source

Whether the current disk is a music disk as opposed to a floppy disk or other item.

If this returns true, you will can play the record.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. boolean If the disk is present and has audio saved on it.
getAudioTitle(name)Source

Get the title of the audio track from the music record in the drive.

This generally returns the same as disk.getLabel for records.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. string | false | nil The track title, false if there is not a music record in the drive or nil if no drive is present.
playAudio(name)Source

Starts playing the music record in the drive.

If any record is already playing on any disk drive, it stops before the target drive starts playing. The record stops when it reaches the end of the track, when it is removed from the drive, when disk.stopAudio is called, or when another record is started.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Usage

stopAudio(name)Source

Stops the music record in the drive from playing, if it was started with disk.playAudio.

Parameters

  1. name string The name o the disk drive.
eject(name)Source

Ejects any item currently in the drive, spilling it into the world as a loose item.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Usage

getID(name)Source

Returns a number which uniquely identifies the disk in the drive.

Note, unlike disk.getLabel, this does not return anything for other media, such as computers or turtles.

Parameters

  1. name string The name of the disk drive.

Returns

  1. string | nil The disk ID, or nil if the drive does not contain a floppy disk.

Changes

  • New in version 1.4