[Coco] Just another peek...

[Dave Philipsen]

I would be interested in discussing the interface you have created with 
HDBDOS.  Why don't we continue this discussion over on CoCo3FPGA.  I'll 
post you there.


Dave



On 2015-10-09 19:28, Mark McDougall wrote:
> 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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