[Coco] PBJ PC PAK - Part II - Interfacing (source for driver)

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 31 January 2008, Joel Ewy wrote:
>Mark McDougall wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Not impossible, but it will be time consuming to run all those
>>> defines down and figure out what its doing.
>>
>> "Byte-bashing" IDE (for lack of a better term) with a suitable
>> hardware interface really is quite trivial and doesn't require a great
>> deal of code (especially PIO mode). The only tricky part is complying
>> with the timing on the status register - not reading it too *soon*
>> rather than too late - so on older hardware it's probably not so much
>> of an issue.
>>
>> So it's probably better to roll your own from scratch rather than
>> attempt to port the linux driver to os9/nitros09?!?
>
>Of course the source code can give you an idea how the thing works...
>
That I figured would be obvious, Joel. :)  Grant's code was generally well 
organized and would serve as an excellent starting point for how it is 
organized.

>JCE
>
>> Regards,
>
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