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

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Thu Jan 31 19:14:59 EST 2008


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...

JCE
> Regards,
>




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