Date   : Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:00:02 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: IDE Interface and Level 3

>Message-ID: <2f806cd70709070301i7c40f317y609ce7af84e4633b@...>
 
Rob <robert@...> wrote:
> On 07/09/07, Chris Priest <chris.priest@...> wrote:
> > If I were to assemble JGH/Sprows IDE interface would it work happily
> > with Level 3 Fileserver?  Assuming I need to change the ADFS rom to the
> > new patched one?
 
I've just assembled together the neccessary bits - Master,
6502CoPro, IDE interface, Hard Drive, Level3FS code - and tried
it. It works perfectly. The one problem is that the initialiser
program - WFSInit - doesn't understand the drive geometry, so the
file server reports the drive as being about 400K. I'll have a
look at the code and see what needs changing. Luckily, I have an
uncompressed version, so that makes looking through the program
easier.
 
> Not sure on this one; I know I had problems with the GoMMC, but never
> really followed those up.
 
Again, that could be the drive initialisation. The file server
program only ever uses OSWORD &72/&08 and &72/&0A - read and write
- but the initialiser calls OSWORD &72/&1A expecting to be told
the drive geometry. If the GoMMC driver doesn't return anything
suitable then that could be the problem.
 
I'm pleased to see that my Y2K patch for the Level 3 File Server
works perfectly :)
 

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