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

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Thu Jan 31 18:42:42 EST 2008


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?!?

Regards,

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