[Coco] Just another peek...

[Dave Philipsen]

Oh and, by the way, I'm definitely not knocking drivewire.  It certainly 
has its place and its functions are much more than just a 'disk 
controller' but the SD card on the CoCo3FPGA is an order of magnitude 
faster than drivewire running at 115.2kbps.  And rightfully so as its 
SPI interface is running at a frequency that is an order of magnitude 
higher than a typical serial port. It is especially noticable when 
you're doing disk intensive operations like assembling or compiling 
programs.


Dave


On 2015-10-09 17:49, tim franklinlabs.com wrote:
> That makes sense. I was looking at the Atari 800 SOC for the DE1 and
>    they did the same thing. Thanks for clarifying that.
> 
>      On October 9, 2015 at 3:39 PM Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com>
>      wrote:
>      The wires that can be added are not a requirement. The DE1 
> evidently
>      neglected to connect the card insertion switch. So if you want
>      NitrOS9
>      to automatically detect when you have removed the card or
>      'hot-plugged'
>      a new one in then you need the wires. I have personally run the SD
>      card
>      successfully under NitrOS9 without any wires. In that condition 
> it's
>      best that you regard the SD card as non-removable unless you shut
>      OS9
>      down.
>      As I mentioned before the access to the SD card is not yet
>      integrated
>      into DECB. The card does work in that environment but you must 
> write
>      your own 'driver'. I have personally used code to access sectors
>      (reading and writing) from the DECB environment. In fact, I 
> already
>      have the core of a program that can manage multiple 'partitions' 
> on
>      the
>      SD card and make them available for booting from DECB.
>      Dave Philipsen
>      On 2015-10-09 15:21, tim franklinlabs.com wrote:
>      > From what I understand (from the documents) the SD card only 
> works
>      with
>      > Nitros9 and requires a wire to be added (not sure about the wire
>      > thing). Everything I read states it doesn't work with DECB (yet!
>      > maybe?)
>      >
>      > On October 9, 2015 at 1:27 PM Michael Brant
>      > <brant.michael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
>      > I am also interested in knowing more about the SD card access as 
> i
>      > would
>      > want a stand alone setup.
>      > On Oct 9, 2015 2:24 PM, "Barry Nelson"
>      > <Barry.Nelson at amobiledevice.com>
>      > wrote:
>      > > I would want one of these, but I do not want to have to use an
>      > external
>      > > DriveWire server. Any updates on how the SD card access is
>      > going?
>      > >
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > > Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
>      > >
>      > > > Fri Oct 9 10:51:34 EDT 2015
>      > >
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > > It works just like the other video modes on the CoCo 3. The
>      > video
>      > > memory is part of the 512k memory map. In this case about
>      > 288,000
>      > bytes of
>      > > memory are used.
>      > >
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > > Dave Philipsen
>      > >
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > O/ On Oct 9, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at
>      > gmail.com>
>      > > wrote:
>      > >
>      > > > >
>      > >
>      > > O/ That's awesome Dave! So where exactly is this video memory
>      > coming from?
>      > >
>      > > O/ ahhh.. i really want one of these now...
>      > >
>      > > > >
>      > >
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