2.5 Other Features

The only disk command used in examples 2.2 and 2.3 was read, but there are, of course, a variety of other commands.

1. write
2. read and set the time
3. seeking (rotating the drive motor and moving the head to the specified location; certain timings of this task before writing and reading can make the time required for writing and reading appear shorter.
4. reading the ID (The ID is a unique 32-byte data string assigned to each disk.)
5. Various others

Details on the use of these individual commands (functions) are presented in "Chapter 7, Library Functions."