Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT's IDE support

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On Saturday 02 January 2010, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > FreeMiNT is application as all the others from the Falcon's point of
> > view so you must have some loader for it, i.e. yes you need HD Driver
> > for example.
>
> I was thinking about running MiNT from the AUTO folder of a floppy, then
> it could load the other files from the IDE drive, if it has a built-in
> IDE driver.

I think MiNT needs some changes to be run from a floppy.  Last time I tried
it with Hatari, it refused to boot from anything else than HD.


> So if I understand well, this is currently not possible.
>
> I would like to find a solution to use the CompactFlash card (IDE
> interface) on the ACP prototype with EmuTOS. As EmuTOS for ColdFire does
> not include yet a 68000 emulation layer, I can't use the standard HD
> Driver binary. Fortunately this will be possible as soon as FireTOS runs
> on the ACP prototype.
>
> Are there open-source drivers for Falcon IDE somewhere ?
> That I could recompile for ColdFire ?

ACSI is not an option?  EmuTOS supports that and DOS partition tables
natively.  (Maybe you could add IDE support to EmuTOS?)


	- Eero