Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT's IDE support

[Adam Kłobukowski <atari@gabo.pl>]

Vincent Rivière pisze:
> Miro Kropacek 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.
>
> 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 ?
>

I wrote code for writing/reading/detecting IDE devices for Falcon (works
with Aranym too). What is left to do, is making it a driver (MiNT lacks
a block device layer), and ATAPI support. Unfortunetly the sources are
lost, but it is really easy to do (and test with Aranym).

Adam Klobukowski