[Coco] Just another peek...

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Fri Oct 9 20:28:23 EDT 2015


On 10/10/2015 7:39 AM, Dave Philipsen wrote:

> As I mentioned before the access to the SD card is not yet integrated
> into DECB.  The card does work in that environment but you must write
> your own 'driver'.  I have personally used code to access sectors
> (reading and writing) from the DECB environment.  In fact, I already
> have the core of a program that can manage multiple 'partitions' on the
> SD card and make them available for booting from DECB.

My Coco1/2 implementation can access (R/O atm) the DE1 SD card via 
HDBDOS. It appears to the Coco (HDBDOS) as a standard IDE drive.

I really should look at write support. :( It's a matter of adding write 
support to my SD backend interface; the IDE controller already handles it.

Regards,

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